Wrong Hard Drive Capacity

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  1. frenze31

    frenze31 MDL Novice

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    #1 frenze31, Feb 16, 2014
    Hi Guys! I'm having a strange problem on my Hard Drive. It is a Toshiba MK1032GSX Hard Drive. The Spec Sheets are indicating that it is a 100GB Drive. But when I look at it in the computer it only shows 40GB. Is there anything related to jumpers that should i Do to fix the capacity? Because i see that there's pin intended for Jumper. But there's no instructions on what does every pin combination do? Anyone have ideas about this?
     
  2. ianymaty

    ianymaty MDL Member

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    #2 ianymaty, Feb 16, 2014
    Don't mess with the jumpers if you don't know what they do (no description found)

    Where do you see the capacity? My computer, Drive management, BIOS?

    Did you do partitioning/cloning operations on it?
     
  3. zen45

    zen45 MDL Addicted

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    #3 zen45, Feb 16, 2014
    it is 100 gig hd. google it for more info on it, go to propertys/tools on to see if something's wrong with it check for errors ! o_O
     
  4. jellybelly

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  5. LatinMcG

    LatinMcG Bios Borker

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    #5 LatinMcG, Feb 17, 2014
    MHDD time! .. or HDAT2
     
  6. Kamrul08

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    #6 Kamrul08, Feb 17, 2014
    May be hidden partition. You can follow jellybelly's instruction.
     
  7. urie

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    #7 urie, Feb 17, 2014
    Check in bios that will give full hard dive size.
     
  8. frenze31

    frenze31 MDL Novice

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    #8 frenze31, Feb 18, 2014 (OP)
    Hello Guys! I didn't found any hidden partitions. It shows 38GB in my BIOS.
     
  9. xakerz

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    #9 xakerz, Feb 18, 2014
    It shows you 38 Gb because a jumper on the back side of HDD stand wrong. Look at the picture on your HDD and try to find where should jumper stay. Check this easeus.com/resource/images/install-ide-hard-drive-jumper.gif
     
  10. frenze31

    frenze31 MDL Novice

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    #10 frenze31, Feb 18, 2014 (OP)
    It's not IDE. And also there's no pins shorted as it came without any jumpers set.
     
  11. ianymaty

    ianymaty MDL Member

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    #11 ianymaty, Feb 18, 2014
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    frenze31 MDL Novice

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    #12 frenze31, Mar 2, 2014 (OP)
  13. ianymaty

    ianymaty MDL Member

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    #13 ianymaty, Mar 2, 2014
    Try update the BIOS. If that don't fix it I don't know what to tell you more. Maybe contact Dell support?