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Re: [OT] - Hard discs...
Phil Harris wrote:
> As most of you are aware, I have a number of drives >128Gb and
haven't had
> any problems formatting any of them previosly but just wondering if
anyone
> else has any ideas...
>
> I have two new Western Digital 160Gb drives bought about ten days ago
from
> BigPockets - both are the same model however one only recognises as
128Gb
> whilst the second recognises as 160Gb. I've tried a number of
motherboards
> under both Windows XP / MCE and Linux (Ubuntu) and the results are
> consistent. I have also tried the drive under Mac OSX and I get the
same.
>
> Anyone got any further suggestions to try before the first drive gets
RMA'd
> back to BigPockets? Seems bloody weird to me.
Check the jumpers, some drives I have bought have had the option to jumper
to
reduce capacity, the jumper may be missing the metal from inside it, I have
had
that a couple of times on cheap motherboards
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