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#Seagate seatools maximum size how to
Now, I think I see hints of not understanding how to set a limit on the apparent size of a drive using Seatools for DOS. I recommend consulting Seagate's Tech Support for their guidance on that. So I have to suspect that, if this step cannot be done successfully, either the drive is faulty, the software is faulty, or the mobo or cables are at fault. That particular tool does NOT have you specify what the "max" is - it reads that info from the drive itself and uses it.
I've never run into the error message a few have quoted here - error 51:10 when trying to reset the drive to max value.
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Alternatively, there could be a software driver for the mobo's drive controller that needs to be updated in Windows.
#Seagate seatools maximum size update
It could be in the mobo's BIOS, and hopefully there is a way to download a BIOS update file plus a utility to "flash" your BIOS chip. There you should be able to find out if this is a known problem and how to fix it. In that case check the mobo manufacturer's website.
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The problem must be somewhere else, either in the HDD controller on your mobo, or in the software drivers for it.
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On the other hand, if DOS Tools reports the disk size (that is, maximum sectors available) is the full size already, then you know that there is nothing at all wrong with the HDD unit. Now check what it says about disk size to be sure. Do that, exit from DOS Tools, and reboot into it again. In that case, in this same section of DOS Tools, there is a place you can tell it to restore this disk to its full size. Is it the 3 billion + sector count, or only the 1 billion number? If it is the smaller number, or something close, it is possible that someone has previously set the limit for some unknown reason. In the DOS Tools page for forcing the disk to limit itself, look at what it says is the current limit on the number of sectors. But somehow it appears to have only about 1,073,741,824 sectors for a capacity of 549,755,813,888 bytes. Now, in your case, this 1.5 TB hard drive SHOULD have about 3,221,225,472 sectors to yield 1,649,267,441,664 bytes capacity. So, for example, if you are limited to using 2^28 sectors (the limit imposed by the older "28-bit LBA" system), that comes to 268,435,456 sectors or 137,438,953,472 bytes, the reason that HDD's used under that older system cannot exceed 128 GB by Microsoft's way of counting. The trick is to know that the measurement is done in terms of the number of disk sectors available. You don't want to do that, but there is a reason I'm going there.
In DOS Tools there is one place where you can deliberately tell the drive to restrict itself to a smaller value than its true size. Microsoft, on the other hand, calls a Gigabyte 1,024 x 1,024 x 1,024 bytes and their measurement will give you a smaller number of "GB" for the same drive. So the numbers should match up - the disk size should be 1,500 of these, just as the disk label says. It may state it in MB or GB, but be aware that Seagate calls a GB exactly 1,000,000,000 bytes. However, the info I would look for is the size of the disk. There are short and long tests of the disk surface and I warn you, the long test is REALLY long because it writes, reads and writes to every sector individually, and that's a lot for 1.5TB! It takes many hours!
It installs a mini-DOS and runs some good diagnostics. You make a disk from it and boot from this disk. Yeah, as Zorg says, the DOS Tools from Seagate will help you. Sorry for the newb question here but are my concerns correct, or will the formatting of the drive make the adjustments that I am looking for?Į: Samsung Spinpoint 400BG (Full of data)ĭ: Seagate 1.5TB (unpartioned, unformatted, drive in question) For the record, I have a Seagate drive installed D DiscWizard told me that I had to have a Seagate drive installed to utilize the app. I have updated my bios, and ran Seagate's DiscWizard. The last function is where I was intending to format the drive and mount, but I am concerned that I will only be formating 1/3 of the drive. Everything is telling me it is a 500GB drive, including the bios, a right click, and accessing the Disk Management function from Computer Management. I can use some help installing my new Seagate 1.5TB HD as a data drive. Hello all, sorry if this has been covered, but I have not been able to turn up a thread on this subject.
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