zedzed Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 I have been having lots of problems trying to get video card to work using Boris method. I fiddle around and screw things up and then I go to reinstall the os 10.4.7 During the install I go to disk utilities and do a partition erase - to delete old install Today I noticed that my drive is no longer seen as a 250 gig western digital but it is not a 128 gig drive I tried to delete partition and re-partition.... but no luck How do I get the drive working to full capacity again? Note - I have Intel D915PBL mobo and the drive in question is on the SATA bus Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wondergod Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 What does your bios recognize it as? also if you were messing with the jumpers on the drive make sure you put them on right because most drives have a setting that'll cripple the size of the drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zedzed Posted September 12, 2006 Author Share Posted September 12, 2006 No - initially the drive was indicating the correct size. Plus SATA drives don't have jumpers - do they? I think the multiple 'erase' attempts screwed something up. I used teh Win XP install disk to repartition and reformat. Now it indicates as correct size again. Geez - is that embarrasing or what? Using WinXP disk to fix a Mac install. Ouch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayland Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 No - initially the drive was indicating the correct size.Plus SATA drives don't have jumpers - do they? I think the multiple 'erase' attempts screwed something up. I used teh Win XP install disk to repartition and reformat. Now it indicates as correct size again. Geez - is that embarrasing or what? Using WinXP disk to fix a Mac install. Ouch HFS File system? or NTFS? I know it may sound stupid, but there is a limit on some HD's partitions sub 2003 or so, that stop at 128 Gig.... now does it have any remaining space to be partitioned... or is that it? There is a slight posibility that you may have messed up the drive's boot sectors, there are programs to do a low level format... which is what you may need. Just a thought- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomnic Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 Do you use WinXP SP1 at least? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwhsh8r Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 if your having trouble still, try gparted (http://gparted.sourceforge.net/) use the live cd, its free and works great for any partitioning/wiping needs, see if that helps... hope it fixes the problem max Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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