cant fing gigs on HD

as u can c im no use with pc, its a problem i have been trying to fix for a long time as others ive giving the pc to. cant fix it ,which is why im here ive tried what i can,ive checked out a lot of sites to try fix the prob, (which is) my bios says 40gig yet the pc reads 13gig im puzzled ,cheers for all help.

 

Hey john were ya located? Maybe ddp cis close and can look at it or maybe Im close and I can look at it.

All I will say is this. In ya report is said smart test failed. So maybe the drive is failing and thats what happening to the rest of the info. Also what versions of windows are ya running and what is the drive formatted to? Ntfs...fat32..??

If the bios is recoginizing it as 40 gig then there is something wrong.:>

 

quick reply thanks , im from scotland ,ok im running winxp the system is fat 32, ill try bios to c if i can get my smart enabled,just to see if that works ,

 

cant remember how i did that test to c if smart is enabled ,but i did enable it in the bios ,i went to computer management and it shows 12.11gig,this is doing my head in lol

 

im getting lost now ,can u look at this site i found,its puzzling me ,does that mean the jumpers are wrong ,sorry i havn't a clue,but i do try lol.

 

http://www.fujitsu.com/global/suppo...hdd/eol/dhdd/mpd3xxat-jumper.html#idspecial_a
this is showing me i cant get the 40gig yet on bios it is ? c y im puzzled

 

i cant see jumpers like it shows on diagram, is it that my mobo is not compatible or is it the hard drive ,theres got to be an answer somewere,

 

Can yeah take a pic of ya hard drive for posting purposes.

 

If you show 12 gigs and your HDD ID# shows it as a 13 gig HDD, is the only reason you believe that it is a 40 gig HDD is because of your bios? Is your bios set to AUTO detect for the HDD or did you manually set the bios and that is when you read 40 gig? Did you purchase it from someone who told you it was a 40gig HDD? In othe words, why do you believe it is a 40gig HDD?

 

ok, you need to find out the truth about your hd first. so just take it out and look on top of the hd. it usually has the drive specifications printed on it. so you can clear that mystery up once and for all.

and correct me if im wrong but fat32 can only be formatted into 13gig partitons right?

if you did format to fat32 then you have one partiton of 13gig so go to admin tools then go to disk management and try to delete partiton. if you are able to delete the partition then do so. then reformat the hd to ntfs.

 

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q154997/

From that site.

Edit: However, FAT32 is limited to 4Gig file sizes regardless of drive/partition size.

 

first of all i must say a big thanks to all you guys that helped me out ,
the hard drive i removed on it ,it gave different model numbers which gave different gig sizes, looking at it it told me that it was only a 13.2 gig , according to the hdd numbers.so i know its 13.2 ,
but any ideas of why is says in bios 36.5, just curios now, and do u know if i can put in a bigger hdd if so what kind ,once again i thank for all help given

 

Your bios gives options and that might be where you saw the 40gig's at. But in Auto Detect, it would know that it was only the 13gig model.

I see that you have SP1 and would recommend going to SP2 before much longer. You can add a HDD as large as your bios allows and since it is dated 8/15/02 you should be OK with most that would fit your needs.

 

i would like to thank all who helped me ! thnx ,i will get sp2
ill always use tis site if i get anymore probs ;unbielevable place,cheers

 

i knew there was some limitations to fat32 partition size. i just got confused with THirteen and THirty-two.