motherboard doesn't detect more than 32gb harddisk

Computer Forum CPU, Motherboards and Memory
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Hi to everyone

I have just bought a 80 gb hardisk, but my system doesn’t detect the full 80 gb , infact it detects only 32 gb, also it detects only 192 mb of ram. My Pc is an old one, which i purchased it in 2000 , configuration is Pentium III , 500 mhz

Some of my friends told me that it can be solved by putting some card

Is it true???

and what type of card it is???

plz help as i cant afford to buy a new motherboard

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[QUOTE=kunal1982]
Hi to everyone

I have just bought a 80 gb hardisk, but my system doesn’t detect the full 80 gb , infact it detects only 32 gb, also it detects only 192 mb of ram. My Pc is an old one, which i purchased it in 2000 , configuration is Pentium III , 500 mhz

Some of my friends told me that it can be solved by putting some card

Is it true???

and what type of card it is???

plz help as i cant afford to buy a new motherboard
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right click on my computer, click manage and then disk management. u shud see your hard drvie there and from my guess, there should be another partition which u have to format.

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[QUOTE=izzy007]
right click on my computer, click manage and then disk management. u shud see your hard drvie there and from my guess, there should be another partition which u have to format.
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no this is not the problem , problem is with motherboard’s capability to address the space of RAM and harddisk

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[QUOTE=kunal1982]
no this is not the problem , problem is with motherboard’s capability to address the space of RAM and harddisk
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so ur sure that there is only one partition.
i wud leave a bios flash till last but thats wat i can think of now. does the drive work at 80gig on a different computer

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yes it is working on my friend’s system, see it not only the hardisk, also it does not detect more than 192 mb of RAM

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[QUOTE=kunal1982]
yes it is working on my friend’s system, see it not only the hardisk, also it does not detect more than 192 mb of RAM
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if your friends system is pretty new, say p4, then i think your bios is limiting u to only having 32 gig of space and no more than 192mb of ram. how big is your ram module anyway

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512 mb

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[QUOTE=kunal1982]
512 mb
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the only thing i can think of is ur bios. u wud need a bios update.

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What file system is the HD formatted with?

Is is FAT32 or NTFS?

[ot]4000 posts w00t[/ot]

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IT is fat 32

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Your motherboard’s chipset doesn’t support over 32GB hard drives. While you may be able to get a new BIOS for your motherboard and flash that, the most surefire way I know of would be to get a PCI-based IDE controller card and have the 80GB hard drive run off of that. Depending on where you get it, they run anywhere from $15 to $50 (US).

The file system has nothing to do with this. It’s a hardware addressing scheme. They used to think that 32GB was huge. :wink: