Hi,
I bought 7200.12 ST31000523AS recently and I have few issues with it.
Firstly, model number written on disk is ST31000528AS, but in BIOS it is presented as ST31000523AS. Bit strange, but lets pretend its ok.
Another more serious problem, which I have never encountered, is that capacity of disk is detected as 32 MB, instead of 1000 GB.
When I sent HDD for service, they formatted it and said there are no problems with it, still my BIOS sees only 32 MB. My mobo is Gigabyte 965P-DS3.

Anybody have similar experience and possible solution to this problem?

Thank you
Jiri Kafka

Maybe the problem is not with your HDD, but with your mobo or sata conenctions

Might be that your mainboard respectively your bios is a bit outdated
and cannot show the correct value of this new drive?

Do you see the correct value / size for that drive in the disk management
console?

If yes, then live with it - it should work, if not, then perhaps a bios update
could help.

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falther

That board is pretty new, so shouldn't have any problems with the drive...

Have you tried hooking it up to a different computer?

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You don't have to backup all of your files, just the ones you want to keep.

I have some of this problem too.. it is HPA problem.. I dont know WHY but Seem it is BIOS problem. BIOS suddenly change its capacity to 32 MB ....
after reset HPA will show you 1TB. but sometime will back to 32 MB and you need to restore HPA again... Seem it is BIOS problem... try to update your BIOS to latest version

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Спасибо
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