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03-21-2005, 04:18 PM	#1
XxAndyxX Maximum Bitrate Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Edmond, Oklahoma Posts: 609	80gb hard drive only showing it's 32gb?!? I've deleted all the partitions of my 80GB hard drive and put NTFS on it. But it still reads only 32GB. Is there any way to recover the rest of the drive?

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03-21-2005, 04:20 PM	#2
Gobby Raw Wave Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: On the beach Posts: 2,225	Have you ever been able to see the full 80GB? What O/S are you running?

03-21-2005, 04:23 PM	#3
Seth Maximum Bitrate Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Athens Greece Posts: 836	Some drives have a capacity restriction jumper where the master/slave jumper is. That jumper makes the drive show 32GB in order to be compatible with older systems. Maybe it is shorted ?

03-21-2005, 04:32 PM	#4
elmo Variable Bitrate Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Staffordshire, UK Posts: 199	run fdisk see if there are any unmounted volumes on that drive, any unpartitioned space? __________________ www.streetrace.co.uk - The UK's best modified car club (With lots of 16/17/18 year olds for scouse to abuse)

03-21-2005, 04:33 PM	#5
XxAndyxX Maximum Bitrate Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Edmond, Oklahoma Posts: 609	The jumper was set to master so I switched it to cord select and it now recognizes it! Thanks Seth! I don't understand why it wouldn't work on master. It must've at some point in time. I can't remember the last time I used it.

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