os won't see entire hard drive

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I've got a 300gb ata133 drive as master. I've got several other drives and
have windows installed on one. Well, the OS only sees 127gb and it's a 300gb
drive. It was working fine before, but now not all is seen. Partition magic
805 says bad on the drive for bad partition info or something. format does
not work and pmagic cannot format or create a partition on it or anything.
dos format does not work nor does right clicking on the drive and saying
format.

the disk management tool also shows it as the 300gb, but it won't let me
format it or anything.
no messages that help at all as unable to format is all that happens.
 
SP2 installed ???

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"AMD" <d@d.com> wrote in message news:uxhjfOe6HHA.1900@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> I've got a 300gb ata133 drive as master. I've got several other drives and
> have windows installed on one. Well, the OS only sees 127gb and it's a 300gb
> drive. It was working fine before, but now not all is seen. Partition magic
> 805 says bad on the drive for bad partition info or something. format does
> not work and pmagic cannot format or create a partition on it or anything.
> dos format does not work nor does right clicking on the drive and saying
> format.
>
> the disk management tool also shows it as the 300gb, but it won't let me
> format it or anything.
> no messages that help at all as unable to format is all that happens.
>
>
 
yes, but it wouldn't matter.


"Peter Foldes" <okf22@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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SP2 installed ???

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"AMD" <d@d.com> wrote in message
news:uxhjfOe6HHA.1900@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> I've got a 300gb ata133 drive as master. I've got several other drives and
> have windows installed on one. Well, the OS only sees 127gb and it's a
> 300gb
> drive. It was working fine before, but now not all is seen. Partition
> magic
> 805 says bad on the drive for bad partition info or something. format does
> not work and pmagic cannot format or create a partition on it or anything.
> dos format does not work nor does right clicking on the drive and saying
> format.
>
> the disk management tool also shows it as the 300gb, but it won't let me
> format it or anything.
> no messages that help at all as unable to format is all that happens.
>
>
 
BIOS?




"AMD" <d@d.com> wrote in message
news:%23tQ8Cce6HHA.1208@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
| yes, but it wouldn't matter.
|
|
| "Peter Foldes" <okf22@hotmail.com> wrote in message
| news:elKs7Qe6HHA.1208@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
| SP2 installed ???
|
| --
| Peter
|
| Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others
| Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be
acknowledged.
|
| "AMD" <d@d.com> wrote in message
| news:uxhjfOe6HHA.1900@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
| > I've got a 300gb ata133 drive as master. I've got
several other drives and
| > have windows installed on one. Well, the OS only sees
127gb and it's a
| > 300gb
| > drive. It was working fine before, but now not all is
seen. Partition
| > magic
| > 805 says bad on the drive for bad partition info or
something. format does
| > not work and pmagic cannot format or create a partition
on it or anything.
| > dos format does not work nor does right clicking on the
drive and saying
| > format.
| >
| > the disk management tool also shows it as the 300gb, but
it won't let me
| > format it or anything.
| > no messages that help at all as unable to format is all
that happens.
| >
| >
|
|
 
I see you have this posted in the Vista newsgroup as well..........so what
OS are you running???
peter
"AMD" <d@d.com> wrote in message
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> yes, but it wouldn't matter.
>
>
> "Peter Foldes" <okf22@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:elKs7Qe6HHA.1208@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> SP2 installed ???
>
> --
> Peter
>
> Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others
> Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged.
>
> "AMD" <d@d.com> wrote in message
> news:uxhjfOe6HHA.1900@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> I've got a 300gb ata133 drive as master. I've got several other drives
>> and
>> have windows installed on one. Well, the OS only sees 127gb and it's a
>> 300gb
>> drive. It was working fine before, but now not all is seen. Partition
>> magic
>> 805 says bad on the drive for bad partition info or something. format
>> does
>> not work and pmagic cannot format or create a partition on it or
>> anything.
>> dos format does not work nor does right clicking on the drive and saying
>> format.
>>
>> the disk management tool also shows it as the 300gb, but it won't let me
>> format it or anything.
>> no messages that help at all as unable to format is all that happens.
>>
>>
>
>
 
It sounds like your PC does not support 48Bit LBA. Check vendor for a BIOS
update.

HD Tune, provides drive info (including if your PC supports Large drives,
AKA 48Bit LBA)
and has an option to test your drive.
http://www.hdtune.com/

48Bit LBA Info:
http://www.48bitlba.com/winxp.htm

Also see MS article:
How to enable 48-bit Logical Block Addressing support for ATAPI disk drives
in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013&Product=winxp

JS

"AMD" <d@d.com> wrote in message
news:uxhjfOe6HHA.1900@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> I've got a 300gb ata133 drive as master. I've got several other drives and
> have windows installed on one. Well, the OS only sees 127gb and it's a
> 300gb drive. It was working fine before, but now not all is seen.
> Partition magic 805 says bad on the drive for bad partition info or
> something. format does not work and pmagic cannot format or create a
> partition on it or anything.
> dos format does not work nor does right clicking on the drive and saying
> format.
>
> the disk management tool also shows it as the 300gb, but it won't let me
> format it or anything.
> no messages that help at all as unable to format is all that happens.
>
 
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