Computer issue perhaps someone can fix...

[Deleted member 33117]

When I got this computer online for the first time... a little over a week ago, I did all of my window's updates, and as soon as I installed win 2000 service pack 4, and rebooted my computer, windows will only read my slave (40 gig) as an 8 gig hard drive. It reads as 39 during startup, and bios seems to read it just fine as well. I've tried reformating it in windows, but the problem still persists. Prior to this, it was showing as like a 39.2 gig. Any thoughts?

 

[Dial_tone]

delete the partition, reboot, then read the unformatted size in Disk Manager.

 

[Deleted member 33117]

Disk manager reads the unformated disk size as 8 gigs. Bios currently reads it as 33.8 gigs.

 

[RaZor Ramon]

Do you have a Windows disc? You can reformat it with that.

 

[Deleted member 33117]

A window's disk... I'm a broke college student. I "borrow" my software. I've already tried reformating it. It will allow me to create a partition up to 8 gigs. Come on guys, doesn't anyone on this board know about computers? This happened as soon as I upgraded windows 2000 pro. I can't find anything on the microsoft web site either.

 

[UA_Iron]

http://www.powerquest.com/partitionmagic/

you could try partition magic

what I would(nt) do if I were you...is download windows XP from somewhere, download service pack 1, find a website that will guide you in making a bootable XP disc with service pack 1 and then install that.

 

[Deleted member 33117]

ua_iron, I have a friend who keeps promising to get me an xp pro disk... but he keeps forgetting to bring it with him from Dallas (we hang out twice a month or so).

 

[RaZor Ramon]

If windows won't recognized it a then windows disc is the way to go about reformatting it. It's not my fault you're broke college student. I'd suggest trying to borrow a windows disc from someone. It really don't matter what OS but preferrably Windows 2000 or newer that you make it NTFS and not FAT32. And I know plenty about computers but I sorry the truth isn't what you wanted to hear but it's the truth. You can easily download windows XP pro off kazaa as well.

When you use the window disc the set up (like you are reinstalling) looks at the drive like the BIOS does. It allow you to reformat it there. Otherwise I'd look for a really big magnet and run it over the hard drive a couple of times and that will totally erase it.

 

[Dial_tone]

you might have to manually install the updated atapi disk driver that comes with sp4. That's the one that's supposed to enable support for large disks, not take it away.

 

[Deleted member 33117]

Hmmm.... do you guys think when I upgrade to xp it might solve the issue as well?

 

[jnuts]

Are you on broadband or dialup?

 

[Deleted member 33117]

jnjuts, broadband. My LAN is pretty fast.

 

[RaZor Ramon]

Hmmm.... do you guys think when I upgrade to xp it might solve the issue as well?

Just upgrading probably wouldn't do anything unless you you reformatted the slave 1st.

 

[jnuts]

jnjuts, broadband. My LAN is pretty fast.

Why don't you download an XP disc and burn the image?

http://www.france-aatraders.com/list_torrents/apps.html

 

[Dial_tone]

I would try to reinstall the service pack

 

[jnuts]

Knoppix

http://www.knoppix.org/

 

[Dial_tone]

what file format did you use?

 

[Deleted member 33117]

Ntfs

 

[Dial_tone]

I would use this guide to get the sp4 atapi driver on a floppy disk, then go right click my computer, manage this computer, find the hardware doohickey then the ide controller tab, update the ide controller with the one on the floppy. It might even work to have it search for one by itself. The right one has to be there already anyway.