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by Atte_84
Mon Aug 27, 2007 5:53 pm
Forum: My hard drive isn't recognized
Topic: ASUS 32GB Fix needed for my daughter computer.
Replies: 38
Views: 22657

Ok. Even Norton Partition Magic 8 handles the drive as 32GB in Windows XP.

Admit it. It can't be done. :wink:
by Atte_84
Sun Aug 26, 2007 11:04 am
Forum: My hard drive isn't recognized
Topic: ASUS 32GB Fix needed for my daughter computer.
Replies: 38
Views: 22657

Thanks for you help. Much appreciated. It seems it can't be done. Today morning I took the HDD off to my primary computer. With the cap limit jumper it behaves exactly the same. Windows XP won't recognize the HDD but only to extent of 32GB, even installing the newest MaxBlast does the same. Taking o...
by Atte_84
Sat Aug 25, 2007 2:40 pm
Forum: My hard drive isn't recognized
Topic: ASUS 32GB Fix needed for my daughter computer.
Replies: 38
Views: 22657

None of the frigging dozen partition tools worked on the UBCD. I mean they all saw the drive as 20Gb or sumthing like that. I'm getting a little pissed right now... 8O how could something be so impossible. I messed up with the qtparted a little more. I deleted my primary partition deliberately and t...
by Atte_84
Sat Aug 25, 2007 10:58 am
Forum: My hard drive isn't recognized
Topic: ASUS 32GB Fix needed for my daughter computer.
Replies: 38
Views: 22657

When I type cfdisk -dev I get "Opened disk read-only - you have no permission to write" and after pressing anykey I get the above fatal error text. This is starting to get me...
by Atte_84
Sat Aug 25, 2007 10:52 am
Forum: My hard drive isn't recognized
Topic: ASUS 32GB Fix needed for my daughter computer.
Replies: 38
Views: 22657

When I open Konsole Terminal Program from the Linux and type cfdisk or cfdisk -z it says "FATAL ERROR: Cannot open disk drive; Press any key to exit cfdisk"
by Atte_84
Sat Aug 25, 2007 7:27 am
Forum: My hard drive isn't recognized
Topic: ASUS 32GB Fix needed for my daughter computer.
Replies: 38
Views: 22657

win98se? fat32? what the ..? :lol: I have to use 98SE CD to install it first and then XP over it, since it's CD is only bootable. I could do "clean install" with XP with floppies, but I don't like playing with them anymore. Do you mean that the 6GB FAT32 partition can prohibit the second partition ...
by Atte_84
Fri Aug 24, 2007 8:57 pm
Forum: My hard drive isn't recognized
Topic: ASUS 32GB Fix needed for my daughter computer.
Replies: 38
Views: 22657

this post was somehow left out before the one above: I believe I'm not using v-partition... I've fdiske'd the blank Maxtor with bootable Win98 SE CD. Then formatted to FAT32 with the same disk. I believe that's should not be virtual...? I don't know if I've done something wrong. I only have one part...
by Atte_84
Fri Aug 24, 2007 8:52 pm
Forum: My hard drive isn't recognized
Topic: ASUS 32GB Fix needed for my daughter computer.
Replies: 38
Views: 22657

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by Atte_84
Fri Aug 24, 2007 3:20 pm
Forum: My hard drive isn't recognized
Topic: ASUS 32GB Fix needed for my daughter computer.
Replies: 38
Views: 22657

qtparted is a part of Knoppix..you can download a liveCD (no install) from one of the mirrors here: http://www.knopper.net/knoppix-mirrors/index-en.html and: yes, knoppix is linux and free. and yes again: it can handle NTFS. I finally got the ISO dl'd and ran the Linux from the bootable Live-CD. It...
by Atte_84
Sun Aug 05, 2007 7:16 pm
Forum: My hard drive isn't recognized
Topic: ASUS 32GB Fix needed for my daughter computer.
Replies: 38
Views: 22657

Tried Partition Logic freeware as bootable CD-ROM image. Not much help... Any other suggestions app-wise?
by Atte_84
Sun Aug 05, 2007 11:24 am
Forum: My hard drive isn't recognized
Topic: ASUS 32GB Fix needed for my daughter computer.
Replies: 38
Views: 22657

The exact figures from the BIOS HDD autodetection for the 80GB Maxtor are:

Size 33816
Cyls 4111
Head 255
Precomp 0
Landz 65530
Sector 63
Mode LBA
by Atte_84
Sun Aug 05, 2007 11:13 am
Forum: My hard drive isn't recognized
Topic: ASUS 32GB Fix needed for my daughter computer.
Replies: 38
Views: 22657

Thanks for helping me trying to solve the problem. I get passed result with the 48bitlba checking tool. But still 32GB on XP with 80GB Maxtor. I also found the Intel Chipset driverset for 440LX/EX for XP, but on installation it says no need to update the existing files, your OS already provides the ...
by Atte_84
Sat Aug 04, 2007 7:38 pm
Forum: My hard drive isn't recognized
Topic: ASUS 32GB Fix needed for my daughter computer.
Replies: 38
Views: 22657

Could the use of FAT32 for the first 7GB partition for the OS restrict the avalable space for use for the second partition to 25GB even though I use NTFS for that?

...my, I'm not entirely sure if I'm way off line here, since this seems to BIOS dedicated forum. :wink:
by Atte_84
Sat Aug 04, 2007 6:55 pm
Forum: My hard drive isn't recognized
Topic: ASUS 32GB Fix needed for my daughter computer.
Replies: 38
Views: 22657

I seemed to have jumper only in the "Cap Limit" jumper. I just added jumper to the Master setting and now I got the drive working as primary master. But it doesn't make a difference with the 32GB restriction. If the Cap Limit jumper, which I have had on all the time, was infact the 32GB clipping jum...
by Atte_84
Sat Aug 04, 2007 5:23 pm
Forum: My hard drive isn't recognized
Topic: ASUS 32GB Fix needed for my daughter computer.
Replies: 38
Views: 22657

Can this can be done on current installation without having to install OS all over again from scratch with the jumper clip and BIOS HDD detection? My Windows XP CD has integrated SP2 on it. Can you help me explaining or pointing out which one's the 32GB clipping jumper on the HDD from the picture of...