Only 25 GB of 250 GB

Windows (os does not matter) is only recognizing 25GB of the 250GB capacity of a new 2.5 hard drive. Where is the other 225GB? I have reformatted the drive with the same results.

Thanks

 

Is there a jumper on the drive limiting the recognisable capacity of the drive?

What OS version is it? (This does matter)

 

This is a 2.5 SATA drive. There is no jumper. What I mean by the OS statement was that it did not matter what OS the USB drive adapter was connected to it still read it as only 25 GB.

 

Okay. So we have now established that there is a USB bridge chip between the devices. Can you connect the drive directly to your computer using one of the computer's internal ports?

 

The version of Windows actually does matter. WinXP SP1 and earlier had drive size limits. Drives formatted as FAT32 have size limits. IIRC, Win2000 has drive size limits. WinME/98 definitely has limits with drive capacities being seen correctly. Some older motherboards also have limitations as to the drive sizes they can handle, but this primarily applies to drives connected directly to the board, but may affect drives connected via USB also.

 

umm hate to butt in guys but he ment he tried it on multiple os's and its the same on each one,u may just have a bad drive IF u have TRULYTRIED ALL OPERATING SYSTEMS. but dlb is right older os's have a limits on the size u can install.but like i said b/c this is a laptop hard drive and u cant cross the jumpers wrong....than u got a bad drive.

 

It is a SATA laptop drive so there are no jumpers.
I still believe the first item tested should be the USB to SATA bridge, which is why I suggest attaching the hard drive directly to the computer via an internal SATA port.

 

Hi ya

Have you tried the disk manufacturers tools nearly every Hard drive maker will have some diagnostic tools available on the website, for a 250Gb XP with sp2 and try the Hard Drive tools.

P.s I have seen a 120gb hdd formatted in fat 32 in win98 - working around the 32gb cap I think for 98...Involved something like partition magic and removing the partition and "all of a sudden" the drive was all fat32 sounds bizare... but before I was a geek a gentleman geek that i used to work with in computer shop discovered this somewhat by accident...sounds bizare but no fibs...

L8r and good luck with this one...a drive formatting by itself to only 25Gb is just wrong - could be was it 2 or 4gb for 95 fat 16 - was it upto 32Gb for 98 fat32 - and ME who cares and - 2000 / Xp etc ntfs no issue with todays drives at least as far as I know...