changing jumpuers was useless
installing it on another p.c was useless too
I have a 80 G.B IDE hard disk (w.d 800bb) but the bios and os's recognize it as 32.821G.B what can I do?
I think that it is your operating system. It can only recognize up to a certain amount of hard drive space.
Edit: I think it may be that you are using the FAT filesystem instead of NTFS.
Reply:Install the HDD in another PC and boot from CD using Knoppix then use cfdisk to delete all partition tables.
Make sure you save before you exit.
Reply:what a coincidence, the amount of of 32 and a bit gb is the total amount that a fat32 hdd (hence the name) supports so i'm going to predict that your problem is its a fat32 hdd partition, you can either take the rest of the space and make that a separate partition or you can reformat under the ntfs format, hope this helps
Reply:It may be an old BIOS that does not recognize drives any larger than 32.821 GB.
What is the make/model of the computer, and if you have it, what version/model BIOS does it run?
Doesn't sound like a bad partition setting at all.
--Other possible answers that people might give, that won't fix your problem:
Your jumpers are set to 32GB!
Your partitions are incorrectly set!
You are using the incorrect format!
--BUT!!! since both the BIOS and the OS recognize it as 32GB, I'm betting all my chips on you having an outdated BIOS, if you can get the BIOS VERSION information, and possible the MODEL/VERSION of your mother board, we will be in business.
Reply:You must have it formatted to one small partition and then have a lot of free space. You'll have to reformat it with a partition manager and set it to one big partition with no free space.
Reply:You need to flash your OS, unless..and this is a distinct possibility, older hard drives have a jumper setting to Limit to 32G. See...that's really close. And it was mostly the 80G drives that had this jumper setting.
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