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My drive does not show its full capacity
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I have a PowerPC G4 QuickSiilver w/ 80g HD. I installed a 500gb samsung IDE hard drive and it worked great for 3 months, then it all of a sudden wasn't mounting. The drive itself powered up and made normall operating noises. I tried a disk repair and verify using the disk utility, however it gave an error. I erased the disk and when i created a new one it will mount just fine but only shows 31.37gigs of the 500g. I know its not an issue with it being a larger drive, because it worked before and I have a later version of Quicksilver running 10.4.10. Did the drive go bad or is there something i can do?
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What Quicksilver exactly? ie - tell us the MHz and if it's a dual CPU or not.
Open in Disk Utility. In the side pane, select the hardware icon, rather than the partition icon. Now check in the lower space of the Disk Utility window. What does it report for the SMART status?
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it is a 867mHz PowerPC G4 2MB L3 cache with 640mb SDRAM. SMART Status= verified.
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Well now, the 867 MHz chipped QuickSilver came in two flavors, one that did support large drives and one that did not. But either way, that should not result in a 37 gig size. Something is way wrong with that drive, can you try to reformat with a zero option? Warning, it will take a long time if it sees all 500 gigs.
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I am in the process of reformatting it with a 7 process. Will update as soon as its done.
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Your QuickSilver is affected by the 128 GB drive-size limit. See our PowerMac Storage FAQ for the details.
The drive probably got formatted somewhere else, or you used the FAT32 format it came with. It ran fine for you until it filled to 128 and tried to write beyond that. You could try repartitioning to 128 GB, though it would be a shame to lose all the rest of the space. The other options are an external case, the Intech hi-cap driver, or a PCI card.
As to why it's showing 31.37 GB ... check the drive jumpers vs the jumper key. There may be a jumper to specify a smaller drive size.
Or it could be FAT32 trying to hold the drive size to 32 GB. Reformat to HFS+ (Mac OS Extended) with journaling, case insensitive. It ought to format to 128 GB without issue. See the linked Storage FAQ for details on the ways to get the full 500 GB back.
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okay i will try those suggestions. The erase came back with no change to the capacity. Thanks for the replies.
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In Disk Utility, select the hardware drive icon, not the partition icon. This will enable the Partition tab. Go to the Partition tab and click the Options... button. For your QuickSilver, you want Apple Partition Map. Then go back to the Partition tab, and select Volume Scheme: 1 partition. It should give you 128 GB, or allow you to punch that into the size field. Or 127.99 or thereabouts. Click the Partition button to force the format.
The Erase tab won't change the partition size, it only replaces the directory tree data and some related formatting blocks.
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