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Odd problem.

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I have a WD 120gb PATA drive that is now only seen as 31.49gb (when formatted).

This is the same drive that was used as my primary drive to run windows and hold data. When I was running windows on it, I had the entire 120gbs (minus whatever it is when formatted).

I used WD's own disk to format the drive after buying a new SATA drive.

No matter what I do....it is seen as 32gbs. It is not a bios problem or Windows problem as I currently have 200gb and 160gb drives installed and working fine on the system.

I even used every program that I could on the UBCD to format it. Nothing sees it as 120gbs. Everything sees the model number correctly, but not the size.

What is going on?
 
Jumpers? Many PATA drives have a jumper on them to limit their capacity to 32GB for compatibility with older BIOSes. I know Seagate and Hitachi drives do.
 
Nope. I tried it with the jumper in every possible position and even without it. Same deal.

I am completely baffled by this.
 
It's already been reformatted once, so I presume that there is no data on it. Have you blown away the boot record and partition table on it?
 
DougLite said:
It's already been reformatted once, so I presume that there is no data on it. Have you blown away the boot record and partition table on it?
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Not sure. I don't know how to confirm that. Or what I would use to do it.
 
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