Callipygous Posted March 22, 2008 Share Posted March 22, 2008 Things that are actually connected to my computer : HDD: 80gb ata 160gb sata 500gb sata Cdrw drive dvd drive Things that device manager says are connected to my computer: all of the above plus a floppy drive Things that show up in "my computer": Floppy cdrw dvd 33.4gb hdd 74.5gb hdd 115gb hdd I'm confused. where is my freshly installed 500gb hard drive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doG Posted March 22, 2008 Share Posted March 22, 2008 Google "48 bit LBA" and look through the results. Your BIOS will need to support 48 bit Logical Block Addressing and you may have to configure you edition of Windows for it as well. What sizes does your BIOS report that the drives are? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callipygous Posted March 22, 2008 Author Share Posted March 22, 2008 The bios reports all the correct sizes. i should note that all of the accessible drives have information stored on them already, none of them are the 500gb drive. They somehow fit into the two smaller drives, which have been in my computer for some time now. I dont remember exactly how i partitioned them : P the thing that really gets me is that the 74 gb drive disappeared for some time. i think the 33 and the 115 are the same drive, partitioned from the 160gb drive and then the 74 is the 80g. I actually think i made a post about this before. i was having an issue where the files on the 80g periodically switched between being accessible and not. It has been inaccessible for several months now, but when i installed the 500 gb drive it showed up again and is working fine. programs run and everything. (and im sure i havent just confused the physical drives. the 80g is ata and the 500 is sata, and fresh out of the box for that matter) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doG Posted March 23, 2008 Share Posted March 23, 2008 It sounds like you don't have 48 bit LBA support enabled in your version of Windows. Windows only supports drive to 137gb without it. Go to MS support and search 48 bit LBA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callipygous Posted March 23, 2008 Author Share Posted March 23, 2008 All good. Thanks : D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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