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Hard disk problem. Help please?
I bought a Seagate baracuda 500GB hard disk. My computer is P III and has no SATA ports so I bought an IDE to SATA converter. When I connected my hard disk and opened the BIOS setup, it showed only 6003 MB instead of 500GB. Should I change the heads and cylinders or else? Please, guide.
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- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
There's probably not enough information here for someone to answer fully. You say you "opened the BIOS setup" - is this your main drive for your computer, or a secondary drive? Are you able to actually boot into your operating system and does it show the full disk size in there, or does it limit it in size like your BIOS shows?
You could always get an external enclosure for the drive and connect it up via USB to your computer. As long as you're not using it for the primary drive in the computer, it should work fine this way.
Source(s): Personal experience. - ?Lv 44 years ago
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