Harddrive problems, try to figure this one out

Absolut Talent · Post by **Absolut Talent** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 7:42 pm

Got a Seagate ST340016a used (40gig). Hooked it up, mobo sees it and recognizes the model. Run my win2k disk on it. Shows only 32xxx mb in there (which seems low for a 40gig harddrive). Create a partition and install windows on it. When it gets to 100% installed, it says it cannot install windows as partition could be damaged.

I ran Seagates Seatools utilities, it passes the quick and full tests. I ran the seagate low level format and try again...still no go

There is no clicks, i hear it spinning no problem. Im out of ideas what else to do.

EvilHorace · Post by **EvilHorace** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 8:23 pm

My opinion,
CMOS the mobo (jumper described in its manual), boot Win2K to install, delete all partitions, create a partition and re-install Win2K again.

Absolut Talent · Post by **Absolut Talent** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 8:31 pm

ok, i will try to reset the cmos and do it all again....

eGoCeNTRoNiX · Post by **eGoCeNTRoNiX** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 8:51 pm

Make sure your jumpers are right on the HDs..

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 8:56 pm

Is your Win2K CD slipstreamed to at least Service Pack 2?

Win2K prior to SP2 does NOT support UDMA66 mode or higher, and the OS will fail to install.

1. You should disable UDMA in your system's BIOS (change your boot drive to PIO mode). This should allow you to get the operating system installed without further incident.

2. Once Windows 2000 is completely installed, download and install Service Pack 2 (minimum) from Microsoft, then you can enable UDMA mode in BIOS.

Note: If this is a VIA chipset mobo it is a good idea to update your operating system with the latest VIA 4-in-1-driver update BEFORE enabling UDMA mode.

Absolut Talent · Post by **Absolut Talent** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 9:22 pm

Originally posted by eGoCeNTRoNiX
Make sure your jumpers are right on the HDs..

what kind of a retard do you take me for man?

As far as my win2k cd, I am pretty sure its got SP2 on it cause ive used it on ALL my installs of win2k on all my newer drives (and from what I can remember, thats why I have sp3 and sp4 updates in my updates folder)

The motherboard is a asus p3v4x. Couldnt find my manual, so I looked online at the manual. Cant find a freakin jumper for the Cmos....so I had to yank the battery and turn it on (guess its close enough)

Trying to partition and reformat again.....

Shadow250 · Post by **Shadow250** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 9:36 pm

i just had a drive do this to me, it was weird. i used the seagate tool on the ubcd to partition it for windows 98 and it fixed it. the ntfs wouldnt work right but fat 32 does. strange. btw the ubcd kicks ass

Absolut Talent · Post by **Absolut Talent** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 9:41 pm

yeah, i got UBCD, working on it now.

Which seagate tool did you use?

Jim Z · Post by **Jim Z** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 10:42 pm

what kind of a retard do you take me for man?

well, it's a good question since these drives have a jumper to limit capacity to 32 GB...

also check to see that the drive is set to LBA mode in the BIOS. I've had some drives go to CHS mode when the BIOS was set to auto-detect, which kept me from installing windows.

Absolut Talent · Post by **Absolut Talent** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 11:06 pm

ok...gone through a few different programs on the UBCD....and nothing seems to work. At one part there was a Fat16 partition on it....but now it shows it all cleared and i still havs issues

I have set it to auto, manual, LBA, large, etc... in bios, nothing changes it

Tried different sized partitions between 4gigs up to the full disk, in both NTFS and Fat32, still nothing

Should I try calling seagate and see if I can RMA a drive thats warrenty expired in August of 04?

nexus_7 · Post by **nexus_7** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 11:24 pm

Originally posted by Jim Z
well, it's a good question since these drives have a jumper to limit capacity to 32 GB...

wouldnt that be funny. LOL

Greg

Absolut Talent · Post by **Absolut Talent** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 11:34 pm

Originally posted by nexus_7
wouldnt that be funny. LOL

Greg

lol....its not jumped to there. I doubled checked that when I first installed it. Its set to Master/Single Drive

rndmtask · Post by **rndmtask** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 1:01 am

Originally posted by Absolut Talent
lol....its not jumped to there. I doubled checked that when I first installed it. Its set to Master/Single Drive

No they're talking about a different jumper separate from the master/slave one that sets the drive to 32 gigs for older BIOS's and OS's. I don't see how you could have missed any partitions, if you missed a fat16 partition how do we know you didn't miss some other partition. I'd like to get that drive and have a look at it, because even if you can't get the full 40 gigs it should still allow you to install windows.

chottoED · Post by **chottoED** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 4:43 pm

Originally posted by Absolut Talent
what kind of a retard do you take me for man?

....(cough... cough)

Absolut Talent · Post by **Absolut Talent** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 5:09 pm

Originally posted by rndmtask
No they're talking about a different jumper separate from the master/slave one that sets the drive to 32 gigs for older BIOS's and OS's. I don't see how you could have missed any partitions, if you missed a fat16 partition how do we know you didn't miss some other partition. I'd like to get that drive and have a look at it, because even if you can't get the full 40 gigs it should still allow you to install windows.

its got the 32gig limiter on it, right next to the master, slave, and CS. And the jumper is not on it. the only jumper is on the Master/single drive pins

After reading and asking around, my next choice is to try to hook it up on a pci card since its an old motherboard. THe previous 2 harddrives that were in it were small (10/6 respectivly) and they were old ones (5400)

So I will try the ata card tonite and see if that works