I have an oldish computer which will not auto detect the Samsung SPO812N 80GB hard drive. Can you provide details of the no. of Cylinders/Heads etc to enable me to manually enter this information into the CMOS?

SOURCE: CMOS auto detection of samsung SP0411N HDD stops and hangs

You may have to use CS (Cable Select) jumper, unless this is an old drive where it may be on it's way out. Instead of trying auto detect, highlight primary master drive and press enter and see if it is recognised.

SOURCE: Bootcode - hanaro1

Most likely drive has firmware corruption. Here's some more info.

SOURCE: Compaq Presario will not format Samsung 80GB hard drive.

A Samsung 80GB hard drive has three different capacity options for jumper settings: "Capacity < 32GB", "Capacity > 32GB", and "> 32GB with Capacity Limit". While installing Windows XP, I received an error on a black screen that said NTFS file missing or corrupt, using all the options, and using master and cable select jumper settings for each option, with the same result. I finally swapped out the hard drive and was able to install Windows XP, using a Seagate hard drive with no capacity options.

Lebanon Raingam

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• Posted on Jun 06, 2010

SOURCE: can i make my 80GB hard drive to 100GB?

This is not possible, 80Gb is 80Gb and 100gb is 100gb, but I am afraid, even if you like to replace, you'll not be able to get 100gb since it's no a standard Hard disk capacity. If you are trying to upgrade, then you can find 120gb, 160gb, 250gb, 320gb etc... Good luck. Thanks for using FixYa.