Storage Solutions Pls Help: Bought a Seagate IDE 250 GB HDD.

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I bought a Seagate IDE 250 GB HDD. The Bios detects its capacity as only 136 GB. But within winxp it shows 236000 MB. Right now i have configured it as a slave and a 40 Gb as a master. Should i make the 250 as master and 40 as slave. Which would be better?

Thanks in advance.

Hari
 
This is my config.

BIOS Type: Award

BIOS Date: November 1st 2001

BIOS ID: 11/01/2001-6IWFE-6A69MG0PC-00

BIOS OEM: Intel 810 AGPSet BIOS for 6IWFE F3 - 6.00 PG

Chipset: Intel Whitney 82810E rev 3

SuperIO: Winbond 627F/HF rev 7 at port 002E

Manufacturer: Gigabyte

Motherboard: Unknown

OS: Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2.0

Maximum Memory: 1024MB

Installed Memory: 256MB

Memory Config: Slot1:0 Slot2:256

And pls help me in flashing the bios too.

THanks

Hari
 
Try installing Intel application accelerator before flashing ur BIOS. Read somewhere that it helps in recognising HDDs over 128 GB on the 810.
In case you do have to flash, get someone who's done it before to do it for you. Incorrect flashing might damage ur board forever. I wouldn't recommend experimenting with flashing if u're not sure what it is u're doing.
 
install a new bias, it will solve the problem ...
I also have intel810 chipset , have asus tusl2 motherboard.
After the bias update I am able to install 2 ide drive each with 250 and 320GB capacity.
 
Naga said:
Try installing Intel application accelerator before flashing ur BIOS. Read somewhere that it helps in recognising HDDs over 128 GB on the 810.
In case you do have to flash, get someone who's done it before to do it for you. Incorrect flashing might damage ur board forever. I wouldn't recommend experimenting with flashing if u're not sure what it is u're doing.
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Even Intel Application Accelerator detects only 232 GB. Shouldnt it fall somewhere between 240 & 250 GB man. Because theoritically, 250 GB is 256000 MB. So the formatted capacity must be somewhere between 240 and 250 GB. Is it right {Correct me if im wrong}
 
actually 232GB is about right.
1mb=1024 kb, 1gb=1024mb...thats the way the whole world caluclates capacity.
Only hard drive manufacturerers calculate it as 1mb=1000kb,1gb=1000mb..
hence the difference
 
haridada said:
Anyways thanks guys for ur reply.
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In case there is no new BIOS to upgrade to then ignore what the BIOS say, XP+SP2 will take care of large HDs. Just set to auto-detect in the BIOS and thats it.

Understand that if you make it a master that the system partition ie the one the OS is on cannot exceed 128GB.

I just installed a 750GB as slave on my vintage 2001 P3 and its working just fine.
 
haridada said:
Even Intel Application Accelerator detects only 232 GB. Shouldnt it fall somewhere between 240 & 250 GB man. Because theoritically, 250 GB is 256000 MB. So the formatted capacity must be somewhere between 240 and 250 GB. Is it right {Correct me if im wrong}
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250 gb is 250000mb according to 1gb=1000mb , but windows calculates it erroneously as 1gb=1024mb so your hdd will show up as (250*1000*1000*1000)/(1024*1024*1024)=232.8 Gb
 
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