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60gb HD says it's 33gb??

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gplanet

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Just got a maxtor d740x 60gb hard drive..installed it and got it working in XP without a problem. then, for some reason i can't explain, next time i checked it in windows it says 33gb. so i delete the partition and make a new one, but still 33gb. The BIOS even says it's 33gb and can't change it

What do i do?
 
Make sure that your motherboard BIOS supports drives larger than 32GB. If not, upgrade your BIOS.

There is no jumper on your drive to limit its size to 32GB, so that is fine.

Be aware that WinXP will not format FAT32 partitions greater than 32GB.
 
it is an NTFS partition..which i then deleted.

I even tried the drive on the computer I am posting from right now...which also uses a D740X 60GB drive. The BIOS in this computer also said it was 32gb
 
there may be a jumper at the rear of the drive (not the one for master/slave) which limits the seen capacity to 32Gb.
remove it & the full size of the drive should be seen & available!

 
this jumper does not exist

and the drive worked fine at 60gb and i didn't change any hardware then it just changed to 33gb
 
don't laugh at me, but sometimes MS OS's correct my hardware mistakes without me doing anything. Like, what might be supposed to show up as a 32 gB drive will show up and function as a 60 in OS, but still only 32 in the bios. So, I'd investigate the BIOS flash more.
 
BIOS...still don't understand why people say WinXP does not do 32+ FAT32(guess its how you install it..)...had a 40GB Maxtor 7200rpm ATA100 ..FAT32 XPPro ..single partition for 2 months (no problems or errors..) before I decided to go NTFS on a 20BG 740xl
 
I have the same problem with my computer...
I bought a 40 gigs WD 7200 RPM drive to replace my faulty Quantum Fireball. So I proceeded with the installation and everything was fine, installed Win98 and I had 40 gigs of HD with the little utility that comes with the drive. I then decided to install WinXP Pro. Everything was fine, still got 40 gigs and it was loading fast. One day, my partitions all f***d up and I had to delete them, do a clean install, well you know what I mean. To avoid using EZ-Bios, I flashed my AbitBe6 bios to be able to have the whol 40 gigs. Since I did that, I get only 32 gigs and Winxp is looking for the HD for 1 minute during loading time (found that by looking at M$ website, the utility is bootvis). I then decided I should still use the utility to partitions the drive: I had 40 gigs of disk space with two partitions. Last time I formatted, I decided not to use 2 partitions but one big partition and EZ-Bios will not allow me to install WinXp (says that in the process, not compatible). So I fired up the WinXp install and I STILL had 32 gigs available instead of forty.

How can I fix that, I have the latest BIOS that is supposed to be able to take advantage of 40 gigs HD and it does not and my booting time is up from 25 secs to 1:25.
Oh, by the way, I've got a little splash screen from Highpoint controller BIOS when I boot, right after the system posts, how can I remove it?

Thanks alot!!!
 
If memory serves me (I'm getting on in years) I believe that I read that
Windows (2000/XP) and NTFS don't like partitions over 32 gigs.
If you have an NTFS partition over 32 gigs (say created with partitionmagic)
and then install the OS it'll take it, but later things may get strange, such as
the partition all of a sudden becoming only 32 gigs.......anyone else
heard this?
Greg
 
if i remember correctly (still gaining years) ntfs is rated up to 2 terabytes.... Wait, actually that might be RAM. Anyway, NTFS works with more than 32 gig. 🙂
 
Fat32 is limited by a 32 gigs limit, not NTFS. That's why I made the switch to NTFS, with the ability to encrypt files =)

But no one answered my question =(
 


<< Fat32 is limited by a 32 gigs limit, not NTFS. That's why I made the switch to NTFS, with the ability to encrypt files =)

But no one answered my question =( >>



Actually, fat32 is limited to 2TB for a single volume, 8TB for the entire disk(multiple partitions). Microsoft's fdisk is limited to 32GB(not entirely true, some verisons support 64GB, and can format up to 512GB, but will not report the correct size - fdisk will not report the correct size, that is, the OS will). Microsoft recomends using thrid party software for formatting partitions larger than 32GB. Windows operatings systems can read them fine, they just can't format them. See the following knowledgebase articles for the full details.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q310525
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q154997

If your BIOS reports 32GB, and it properly supports drives larger than that, no utility is gonna be able to properly format the drive except an overlay utility, such as EZbios(to be avoided like the plague if possible). If your bios does not report the correct size, and you know it supports larger drives(which you do know) I suggest you wipe the entire drive (sometimes referred to as a low level format) and try again.

IBM's Zap may be enough, or else try IBM's Wipe utility (search IBM's storage support site to find these indispensible utilities).
 
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