HELP! Anyway to reset this hard drives settings?

[The Stigenator]

guys,
I have a Maxtor 92049u6 drive which is a 20GB drive (19540 after format in NTFS).
For some weird reason it sees it as a "36766MB Drive".

Is there a way to reset this drive. Its never been used. It has been lying idle for a long time because of this problem. I am afraid that if I put data in it might get corrupted.

anyone have a clue on what to do with this drive.

Edit:
Anyone?

 

[Burnedhardware]

warranty ???? i think it's bios-like chip is broken (?)

 

[Edski]

Download Maxtors utility off of their website. Run Maxdiag, there are 3 tests, quick, read, and write. If it passes all 3 tests, it is not the drive that is the problem. Chances are that your bios does not support the drive, or you do not have SP4 or higher.

 

[Quickfingerz]

Try the latest version of maxblast. It's free from the maxtor website.

 

[The Stigenator]

the bios reads it fine, infact I tried it on a newer machine and it game teh same results.

I will try Maxblast and see what happens.

BTW I am running SP5.

 

[ussrover]

as a last resort try the following
FDISK /MBR
repeat above line 3 times

then re-boot with MAXBLAST disk in drive A
that may cure your problem