Here is what Seagate says:
Hello again:
Then you might want to use a PCI ATA controller as that should correct
this issue, My suggestion is based on a logical assumption that your
motherboard does not natively support the capacity listed, even the 32 GB.
Please contact me for further concerns.
Best regards.
Kamel A.
Seagate Technical Support
Will the hard drive boot from this PCI ATA controller to the only hard
drive in the system on it.
Sam
Gaffer wrote:
Hi Sam,
On Monday 13 February 2006 04:14, Sam Franc wrote:
Gaffer wrote:
Hello Sam,
On Sunday 12 February 2006 23:52, Sam Franc wrote:
Is it possible to keep scandisk from running while installing
windows? I have scanned the HD and corrected errors.
When I try to install Windows it runs automatically and can't find
the last cluster every time and quits.
I want to get Win installed regardless.
Can I do something?
Sam
Can we assume that you have verified that there are no memory
problems ?
I have run MEMCHECK through 8 cycles and all shows good
At least that can be ruled out as a cause of any problems.
Can we also assume that you have run "fdisk", deleted and
recreated the partition ?
I have run fdisk and deleted and recreated new partiotions.
Can we assume that you have formatted the drive without errors ?
I formatted the drive with no errors.
If the above is true, and scandisk finds a problem it cannot fix,
ie "last cluster" then go back to "fdisk", delete the partition and
recreate it at 99%. Then format again. Then run "scandisk" and
see if you get the same error !!
Did you try reducing the partition size. Sometimes the last few
cylinders get included when an overlay is removed.
I have run scandisk separately on the drive and it shows no errors
If you do, I would check and make sure that the bios can actually
function with the HDD size. It could explain why you had a drive
overlay in the boot sector in the first place. !!
I have inserted the jumper to cut the bios recognition size to 32GB.
Mmm. This is starting to look like a broken bios.
I don't recall you mentioning why the drive had one, from another
machine possibly !
I put the overlay on accidentally when I was trying to use Seagate
Disk Wizard. I removed it.
Normally the Seagate software won't offer an overlay unless its needed.
I would have thought that it would detect the 32GB size jumper though !
This has been a very frustrating experience.
I suspect the bios recognition jumper may be at the root of the
problem. I have written Seagate inquiring about this.
I bet they are going to say use their overlay.
Sam
Yes ! I agree it can be a pain when you get this kind of problem.
Sometimes a bios update can cure things. Oddly enough I recall a
similar problem with a 40GB drive that had been jumpered to 32GB.
It was put into a new machine that could see drives much bigger, as a
secondary drive. The machine totally refused to even boot unless the
old drive was placed on the secondary controller.
Later the data was backed up and the drive un jumpered. That drive
never formatted properly to its full capacity, and used to fail at
about 37.5GB. Creating a partition of 36GB allowed the drive to remain
in service. I don't know what happened to it after that.
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