New Maxtor 300gig read as 4.35 gig
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Posted by on November 1, 2005, 10:46 am
Please log in for more thread options in slave. The bios reads it fine as "maxtor 300 gig" but when I format in windows it only shows up as a wimpy 4.35 gig drive. Anyone have any solutions? | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by on November 1, 2005, 10:57 am
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Posted by DaveW on November 1, 2005, 4:00 pm
Please log in for more thread options You did NOT give any information about your motherboard, but it's probably
the case that your motherboard is older and it's BIOS cannot recognize any size of harddrive larger than 137 GB. You need to buy another 120 GB drive. -- DaveW ---------------- | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by John McGaw on November 1, 2005, 8:03 pm
Please log in for more thread options DaveW wrote:
> You did NOT give any information about your motherboard, but it's probably
> the case that your motherboard is older and it's BIOS cannot recognize any > size of harddrive larger than 137 GB. You need to buy another 120 GB drive. > No, probably not. He did write that the BIOS recognized the drive as 300gB. That means that it is hardware compatible anyway and that should mean the a simple registry change should enable addressing the full drive. Things can get really really weird when putting in a large drive on some systems and I've been bitten myself when a large drive _seemed_ to be properly recognized but in actuality the data was being scattered around the drive and overwriting existing data randomly. Took me a LONG time to recover from that one... -- John McGaw [Knoxville, TN, USA] http://johnmcgaw.com | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Robert Heiling on November 1, 2005, 5:45 pm
Please log in for more thread options John McGaw wrote:
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> DaveW wrote: > > You did NOT give any information about your motherboard, but it's probably
> > the case that your motherboard is older and it's BIOS cannot recognize any > > size of harddrive larger than 137 GB. You need to buy another 120 GB drive. > > >
> No, probably not. He did write that the BIOS recognized the drive as > 300gB. That means that it is hardware compatible anyway and that should > mean the a simple registry change should enable addressing the full drive. > > Things can get really really weird when putting in a large drive on some > systems and I've been bitten myself when a large drive _seemed_ to be > properly recognized but in actuality the data was being scattered around > the drive and overwriting existing data randomly. Took me a LONG time to > recover from that one... I think you're right about that and I had to modify the registry on my Win2000 to accept a greater than 137GB HD. He's running XP, but SP? I vaguely recall that SP2 has the support, but SP1 needs the registry mod. I also have XP (SP2) here and there's no problem with 250GB. He needs to Google for the details. Bob | ||||||||||||||||||||||
> in slave. The bios reads it fine as "maxtor 300 gig" but when I format
> in windows it only shows up as a wimpy 4.35 gig drive. Anyone have any
> solutions?
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