"Cap. Limit" Jumper Question
George
(Sorry I can't reply in the original thread. I lost it!)
Just today, I needed to use the Rosewill 208 with my MVP3C2, and it
worked fine right away.
Now, I can boot from devices bigger than 30GB! (I am now booting from
a WD 80GB drive.)
I would caution others that it took a long time for the "Found New
Hardware" wizard to appear. Apparently, WinXp had to do a lot of work
before that could appear.
Now, I have another question. I have an 80GB Maxtor drive with some
data on it. Apparently, that drive was formatted with the "Cap Limit"
jumper in place. I removed that jumper.
The WinXp "Disk Manager" now lists the drive as "Drive 1" and "76.33
GB FAT32 Healthy", but it also lists it as "DRV_1(C:)" with a capacity
of 31.48 GB. Is there any way for me to use that as an 80GB drive
without having to reformat it and/or without losing the data that's on
it?
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andy
In the rectangle to the right of the Disk 1 Basic 76.33 Online box,
does Disk Management say that there's unallocated disk space?
If there's unallocated space, a third party partitioning program can
extend the existing partition to the end of the disk.
DRV_1(C:) is the partition on the disk. What does Disk Management say
is the status of this partition? Which volume is Healthy (System)?
George
Disk 1 Basic 76.33 GB Online DRV_1(C:) 76.33GB FAT32 Healthy
no mention fo "unallocated disk space"
"Healthy" System is DRV3_VOl1 (I:)
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andy
>DRV_1(C:) Partition Basic FAT32 Healthy 31.48 GB 31.05 GB 98% No 0%
According to the above, only 2% of the disk partition has data on it.
If there should be more data on the partition, I would replace the cap
limit jumper, back up the data, delete the partition, remove the cap
jumper, and repartition.
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>Disk 1 Basic 76.33 GB Online DRV_1(C:) 76.33GB FAT32 Healthy
>no mention fo "unallocated disk space"
Looks like you're going to have to delete the partition on the disk,
and then repartition and format.