[Ilugc] [X-post]: [OT] HDD size errors (BIOS?) (longer than usual email)

  • From: rajasuperman@xxxxxxxxx (Raja Subramanian)
  • Date: Wed May 14 08:57:07 2008

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 12:36 AM, Roshan <d_rosh2001@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have a SAMSUNG HDD, 80 GB, and everytime I power my
system up, the BIOS shows up the disk space as 33280MB
(32/33 GB approx) of HDD space,

Check the jumpers on your HDD.  There's a 32GB Clip Limit setting
jumper that needs to be changed.

http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/troubleshooting_assistance/capacity_issues/

Google  "hdd 32gb limit jumper" for details.

- Raja

PS: Please don't cross post.

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