320gb Hardrive Need Help

[Deletedmember81584]

Hey guys, my friend just received a 320gb hard drive from his friend. We know that the bios needed to be upgraded so he bought a Ultra ATA/133 PCI CARD with drivers but his computer doesn't recognize the entire drive, maybe a third of it. Anyone have any suggestions on this?

Thanks

 

[Elvandil]

What machine/mainboard is it? What operating system and service pack level? What card?

We really don't have much to go on here.

 

[Deletedmember81584]

He is running XP Pro, Service pack 2,
CPU=Intel Celeron 1100MHz
BUS SPEED= 100MHz
MAINBOARD=M786MR
System=VIA VT8601
BIOS=Award 6.00 PG
MEMORY=512mb

Ultra ATA/133 PCI CARD from COMPUSA

 

[Rockn]

You need to disable the PC's on-board IDE controller in the BIOS and use the BIOS on the card to set up the drive.

 

[Deletedmember81584]

I disabled thr Onboard FDD Controler. What is the FDD Controler and was that the one I was supposed to disable? They also on On Chip something but didn't touch them.

Thanks

 

[Deletedmember81584]

I found out what it is. Floppy Drive Disk. Still not able to find the on-board IDE controller tho....Hmmm....

 

[13.-Suprman]

what type of harddrive is it?

 

[crjdriver]

If the drive is connected to the controller card, there is no need to disable the mb ide.

Some things to check.

1 Does the drive have a size limiting jumper and is this jumper being used?

2 Some controller cards need to have their bios and or drivers updated in order to "See" large hd. I have a promise card around here somewhere that this was required in order to "See" drives larger than 137 gig.

3 Check the card mfg's web site for updated drivers / bios.

4 What does disk management show for the drive? Is there any unallocated space?

Just my opinion, however I would take the compusa brand card back and install a promise or highpoint controller card.

 

[~Candy~]

Out of curiosity, since you haven't posted back, were you able to get this problem solved?

 

[inuyasha320]

is the paritioning correct.

is the cluster size correct.

if it is too large, you can waste a lot of space. but i never seen a bad cluster size do that.

try the hard drive on another computer

 

[crjdriver]

Out of curiosity, since you haven't posted back, were you able to get this problem solved?

Good to see you back.

 

[~Candy~]

Good to see you back.

Thanks