HD recognition problem

[Bluga]

I just got an 80GB HD but after fdisk the windows recognized it as 32GB, what should i do to revert it back? Thanks.

 

[Bluga]

btw i used win98 fdisk to do it, so i guess i hit the limit?

i tried using win2000 but it still recognizes 32GB after the previous step.

 

[bacillus]

what make & model hdd is it?
some of the larger hdds have a capacity limiting jumper to limit seen hdd size to 32Gb.

 

[Bluga]

Maxtor D47 80GB.

 

[Bovinicus]

Did you try NTFS with Windows 2000?

 

[bacillus]

that drive(D740) comes with a capacity limiting jumper which you need to remove to see the full size of the hdd. look at the bottom of this page to see where the jumper is!

 

[Mavrick007]

Make sure that your bios can support drives larger than 32Gigs. You might have to flash your bios to the latest one.
There are limitations at 8Gigs, 32Gigs and 137Gigs for certain bios's. I had to flash mine to read my 45Gig IBM drive and it worked fine after that.

What mobo do you have and how old is it?

 

[Bluga]

ok this is VERY WEIRED. When i first boot today, the BIOS showed 80GB, but after i ran the MaxPlusII software and restart, the BIOS reads 32GB!

 

[Bluga]

bacillus:

you mean just the jumper right?

 

[bacillus]

<< bacillus:

you mean just the jumper right? >>


yes!

 

[Bluga]

ok my HD can br recognized as SLAVE in win2K, but once i want to do a clean install as MASTER, the partition messed up itself!:Q

 

[Bluga]

bump

 

[Duvie]

I read in the faq section here and at microsofts faq page that this is a common limitation of fat32...I would either partition it into 3 drives or make it an ntfs...

I could be wrong cause I know squat about this other then what I have read trying to solve my winxp hdd recognition problems...

 

[ScrapSilicon]

What's the limit on FAT32 thought it was 137GB? or is that Win98se can access 137GB?