Hard Drive Partition problem. Help!!!!

[febuld]

Thanks in advance for taking your time to read this. I just bought a Seagate 160GB 3.5 inch hard drive. I tried to partition the drive, but there seems to be some sort of limitation. For some reason, i'm not allowed to create a partition larger than 33GB. Can anyone please help?

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[rasczak]

what operating system?

 

[birdpup]

Is this an IDE drive? Not a SATA?
I have a feeling you placed your drive jumper symmetrically backwards on the pins.
Try moving the jumper setting to its mirror-opposite position.

Edit: Should that NOT be the case, then please take a look through the link in my signature for hard drive resources. Specifically:

[*]Partition Size Limitation at 32GB, 128Gb

• Ensure jumper is in correct position, if drive is limited to 32GB, the jumper may be positioned backwards.
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• FreeBSD: Sysinstall
• Microsoft: Windows Support for Large IDE Hard Disks
• Microsoft: 48-Bit LBA Support for ATAPI Disk Drives in Windows 2000
• Microsoft: How to enable 48-bit Logical Block Addressing support for ATAPI disk drives in Windows XP
• http://www.48bitlba.com/

 

[Skeeedunt]

It's possible, though unlikely, that it's a bios limitation. How old is your computer? A bios update might be in order.

 

[Muadib]

Originally posted by: jpbelauskas
what operating system?

Exactly!! I'm betting he's using an earlier version of windows.

 

[Brona]

Hi,

You might have a drive with an invisible corrupted partition that occupy space. You can try using Active@ partition recovery tool to try bring it back to life to use then for your purposes.

http://www.partition-recovery.com/