sys info disc size wrong

I recently swapped my hard drive with a new 60 gig hard drive.
After installation Norton Utilities would not run indicating something about a setup problem. Norton said that they had identified a problem. Their only advice was to remove and reinstall Norton Utilities. This did not help.
At some point I got an error message asking if I wanted to fix something or other concerning disk size. I repaired and Norton now runs normally even speed disk whcih would not run berfore.
I have recently defragged the drive.
Now Norton System Information and dos report the drive as a21.47 gig size.
Is this reading of any concern in any way. Don't want to make an issue of something insignificant.
Sure is nice to have such a large hard drive !!!! Unbelievable and unfathomable what you get for your money now.

 

What proceedure did you use to swap?

How did you get the data from 1 drive to the other?

If your old drive was a 20G drive it sounds as though you copied the exact image to the new drive leaving the other 40G of your new HD unformated!?

Mike

 

reply

old drive was 6 gig. New drive is 60 gig.
I formatted and installed win 98 et al fresh
hope this info is use

 

Deleted!!!!

 

schamish

It is not to your benifit to use PM to do the initial setup of the HD.

It needs to be first checked and partitioned using the software that came with it.

That checks for bad sectors etc. and marks same so the that do not get used.

Then it can be formated with Win98 format.

I set up a 40gig without using the disk software and had nothing but inconsistancies with it.

After this is done then PM can be used to make size changes.

Also If you have an older version of NU it May not be reliable that new dirve.

BillyBob

 

which "software" are you referring to

BillyBob,
thanks for the rapid reply. Re " It needs to be first checked and partitioned using the software that came with it "
which software are you referring to ?

thanks

 

which software are you referring to ?

There should be a Floppy that came with the new HD.

If it is reading 21+gig I do not believe it is a BIOS problem.

BillyBob

 

results of hd disc test

first of all to all the "guys" here thanks for your help. Windowsbbs is sure a usefull source of helpfull and relevant information.
BillyBob,
I did as you said.
First of all the startup data of the "speed demon "

Bios V4.01 4.51 pg Award
apollo VP3 AGP chip
Amd-k6-2/350 cpu
award plug and play v 1.0 a
ide primary master

now when I tried to install the hard drive it was not recognized
(as I remember). They did a workaround with the bios with a product called Ez Bios.
on running the disc which came with the hard drive the first error that I get is" " Bios is not accessing the full capacity. System Bios is not controlling properly your drives "
As I recall somewhere out of the blue I recieved an error message and a fix request about reading my hard drive. The
wrong readings seem to appear after the fix. However Norton defrag now works where it did not before (config problems)
The data from running the test is as follows:

============= Data Lifeguard BIOS Check Log File ========================

Int 13h Devices: 1
ATA Devices: 1
ATAPI Devices: 1

=========================================================================

IDE Drive 1: BIOS is not accessing the full capacity.

System BIOS is NOT controlling your drive(s) properly:


=========================================================================
Standard Legacy Controller - 1st IDE Port - Master Device = ATA

Model: WDC WD600BB-00CAA1
Serial: WD-WMA8E3794703
Firmware: 17.07W17
Int 13 #: 80h Sectors Total
Cylinders Heads /Track Sectors Capacity
--------- ----- ------ ------- --------
Drive Default: 4092 16 63 117231408=Max LBA 60022 MB
Drive Current: 16383 16 63 16514064=Max CHS 8455 MB
Int 41 Physical: 65531 16 63 66055248=C*H*S 33820 MB
Int 41 Logical: 4111 255 63 66043215=C*H*S 33814 MB
Regular Int 13: 1023 255 63 16434495=C*H*S 8414 MB
Extended Int 13: 4111 255 63 66043215 33814 MB
EZ-BIOS Int 13: 7296 255 63 117210240 60011 MB

Partition| System | Beginning | Ending |Previous| Total
Table LBA| Type | Cyl Head Sect| Cyl Head Sect|Sectors | Sectors
---------|---------|---------------|---------------|--------|--------
0|FAT32 LBA| 0 1 1| 1023 254 63| 63|66043152

=========================================================================
Standard Legacy Controller - 1st IDE Port - Slave Device = None Detected


=========================================================================
Standard Legacy Controller - 2nd IDE Port - Master Device = ATAPI

Model: SAMSUNG SC-140B
Serial:
Firmware: BS12

=========================================================================
Standard Legacy Controller - 2nd IDE Port - Slave Device = None Detected


=========================================================================
Interrupt 13h Function 8 Data

Device # | Cyls | Heads | Sec/Track |Total Sectors| Capacity
---------|-------|-------|-----------|-------------|-------------
80h | 1023 | 255 | 63 | 16434495 | 8414 MB

=========================================================================
Interrupt 13h Function 48h Data

Device # | Cyls | Heads | Sec/Track |Total Sectors| Capacity
---------|-------|-------|-----------|-------------|-------------
80h | 4111 | 255 | 63 | 66043215 | 33814 MB


=========================== End Of File =================================

isn't cut and paste great.
Hope that this is not too much data. What do I know "I "m from
the country "
thanks again

 

OK. It does look like it might be a BIOS problem of some sort.

But it is beyond my knowledge now.

You need more help now than I can provided.

BillyBob

 

The install killed the EZ Bios loader.

Back up the drive (drive inage etc)

Rerun the WD EZ util and reformat let it reinstall the BIOS support.

Restore the image!

Mike