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Bruce
Posted: June 25th, 2006, 10:18am Report to Moderator
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Hi All,

I have been putting together a new system. I transfered my 80Gb drive from my old system to the new one. The bios, cmos and windows XP all keep reporting the drive as 32 Gb. The Mobo is Gygabyte GA81PE775-G, the Drive is Seagate ST3802110A. The HDD jumper is set to cable select, it is an IDE drive. The bios is set to Auto Detect. Tried after updating BIOS from version F3 to F7, still no luck. Anybody out there who can give me some advice on getting the PC to recognise the correct HDD size.

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Bruce
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Posted: June 25th, 2006, 8:46pm Report to Moderator
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See the following database article.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316505/en-us
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Bruce
Posted: June 26th, 2006, 8:28pm Report to Moderator
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Thanks for the link. I had tried all those. However I was able to figure the problem out and it is fixed now. It was neither a Bios or OS problem. It was a problem with the MBR. I updated the MBR using the vendor's disk utility and everything fell into place!!!
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