80 gb hard drive [Archive]

Jeff Le Taxi

11-03-2009, 09:50 PM

Any help gratefully recieved, trying to install a samsung sp0842n 80gb hard drive as a slave drive but vista is only recognising 32.5 gb when i go to format and partition it????
Any ideas?

Jeff Le Taxi

11-03-2009, 10:29 PM

Its a brand new drive by the way.

Mewsta

11-03-2009, 10:43 PM

Jeff, does your BIOS tell you the correct size of the HDD?

St Landrew

11-03-2009, 11:01 PM

Jeff, go here. Sometimes we're not the fount of all knowledge. The company that made the thing certainly will be. ;)

http://www.samsung.com/us/support/popup/howToGuidePopup.do?howto_guide_seq=1123&type=harddiskdrives

Notice how Vista might be getting its knickers in a twist..?

Jeff Le Taxi

12-03-2009, 06:39 AM

Thank you very much St Landrew, i feel like a right tit now, i thought id got the jumper settings correct but obviously not!
I think i shall stick to the taxi driving!

St Landrew

25-03-2009, 11:59 PM

Thank you very much St Landrew, i feel like a right tit now, i thought id got the jumper settings correct but obviously not!
I think i shall stick to the taxi driving!

Don't worry mate, we've all done it. Probably me more than most. :D