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Old 24 October 2009, 22:27   #1
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HD on A1200 reporting wrong size

I got a A1200 with 5gig HD from a friend of mine who was computer illiterate..

The IDE/SCSI cable with it was broken, so I brought a new one and after much trouble, managed to get the computer to reconise it.

On using the workbench HD setup, it reports that the drive has a total of 20meg instead of 5 gigs.

I know Kickstart 3.0 can't handle that much on it's own so it would need to be partitianed..

Any ideas? Thanks
 
Old 25 October 2009, 11:39   #2
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I got a A1200 with 5gig HD from a friend of mine who was computer illiterate..

The IDE/SCSI cable with it was broken, so I brought a new one and after much trouble, managed to get the computer to reconise it.

On using the workbench HD setup, it reports that the drive has a total of 20meg instead of 5 gigs.

I know Kickstart 3.0 can't handle that much on it's own so it would need to be partitianed..

Any ideas? Thanks
Is it showing 20Meg or -20Meg.

You could use HDInstallTools to setup drive as that supports larger drives.

Im also sure a simple search here would have answered your question.
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Old 25 October 2009, 16:14   #3
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Actually, I have no idea on installing Amiga HDs...

It's showing 20meg, even after changing the drive size on setup...

Thanks..
 
Old 25 October 2009, 18:07   #4
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Actually, I have no idea on installing Amiga HDs...

It's showing 20meg, even after changing the drive size on setup...

Thanks..
Try HDInstallTool.
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Try HDInstallTool.
Thanks - I will try..
 
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Also grab fixHDsize from Aminet, it will force a correct read even using (not) good and old HDToolBox.
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