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Toshiba HDD is too small

June 25th, 2007, 15:32

Hi all,

i have a Thoshiba MK4019GAX. On the disk is printed 40 GB, but all the tools say 32GB. Cane someone explain that to me?


Details of the disk
Current date and time: 25.06.2007 21:24:58
Hard Disk Low Level Format Tool 2.36 build 1181; http://hddguru.com
Device details for TOSHIBA MK4019GAX FA004B [32 Gbytes]

Model: TOSHIBA MK4019GAX
Firmware Revision: FA004B
Serial Number: Z2FI7439T

PHYSICAL PARAMETERS:
LBA mode is supported
LBA-48 mode is not supported
Sectors available with LBA commands: 62,506,080
Sectors available with LBA48 commands: 0
Full device capacity: 32,003,112,960 bytes

SECURITY:
Security features is supported
The device is currently not locked

FEATURES:
SMART is supported
HPA (Host-protected area) is supported
AAM (Automatic acoustic management) is not supported
Streaming feature set is not supported

QUEUING:
Command Queuing is not supported by the device

June 26th, 2007, 5:46

There are two commands in MHDD that will help:

1. NHPA
2. CONFIG (if NHPA won't work, but it should work for your drive)

June 28th, 2007, 2:45

Hi... thanks for the answers, but i check the commands in MHDD and the BIOS, however all likes good...

some more infos to the disk: the 40GB disk is a spare part for a 30GB disk and i think to downsize the disk there is a tool available.

A technician in a repair center use a toool on a floppy, boot from the floppy and started a software to downsize the disk. I ask the technician... pls give me the software, but no chance.

someone a idea....

regards to all TOFU

June 28th, 2007, 9:39

This can happen also because your BIOS doesn't support disks over 32GB.
Did you try this drive on another machine?

June 28th, 2007, 12:12

Yes ,
Try On Other System .Possibly On Latest Board .As Far As Software You Can Use MHDD And Make The Size of The HDD To Any Size You Like
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