wrong hard drive capacity shown on bios

[merka65]

I just bought a new moderboard (sis 620) celeron 533 mhz and 10 gig hard drive seagate. when i going to the bios and do a autodetect for the harddrive it shows the right information. I save it and then it restart the computer again. When it shows all the bios information it shows that is only 580 megs and when i go to fdisk it shows the same information what can i do to correct this problem.

thank's in advance

[shamus]

It's a bios limitation Merka. Go hereand download Disc Wizard then run the ap....been there before, trust me!!!! <IMG SRC="smilies/redface.gif" border="0">

[shanff]

if the drive was originally attached to an older motherboard, the jumpers are probably set for cylinder limit compatability. you'll need to check the docs on the drive to use a standard jumpering scheme.

[Capricorn]

Hi Shamus, That Seagate Disc program looks very handy. Do you know if there is a similar product for Western Digital? I know that they have something called Lifeguard, but it doesn't have any of the features that the Seagate one has.

[Darren Wilson]

Originally posted by Capricorn:
<STRONG>Hi Shamus, That Seagate Disc program looks very handy. Do you know if there is a similar product for Western Digital? I know that they have something called Lifeguard, but it doesn't have any of the features that the Seagate one has.</STRONG>

All of WD's utilities are HERE. The WD equivalent of Disk Wizard is EZ-Install but you will lose any data that is currently on the drive (which is the same with the Seagate one if I remeber correctly)

[Capricorn]

Thanks Shamus.

[Mope]

My Biostar is doing something similar. The BIOS detects my 15 gig drive correctly and Windows ME shows it correctly, but the startup screen shows the drive info incorrectly. Does it even matter if the OS recognizes the drive capacity correctly? This has happened before to me but I don't remember what I did to fix it (maybe it just started working on its own) but now I'm using the motherboard again to give to someone else and I would like to fix this before then. Thans.

[Ruslan]

Originally posted by merka65:
<STRONG>I just bought a new moderboard (sis 620) celeron 533 mhz and 10 gig hard drive seagate. when i going to the bios and do a autodetect for the harddrive it shows the right information. I save it and then it restart the computer again. When it shows all the bios information it shows that is only 580 megs and when i go to fdisk it shows the same information what can i do to correct this problem.

</STRONG>

New motherboard?? <IMG SRC="smilies/confused.gif" border="0"> Anyway,it's BIOS-relayted issue... Did You try to update BIOS? Quite often "new motherboard" doesn't mean "new BIOS"...