help, my new HD doesn't work.

[Bluga]

i just got an IBM hard drive(41GB) but i can't format the drive in windows2000 (it recognizes as 38GB), there's a little red sign beside the MMC.

 

[Bozo Galora]

there was a thread just a few days ago about the 32GB limit problem, with a patch from MS and a workaround on IBM site. Search time.

 

[Duvie]

What is the brand of your motherboard...It may not support drives this large...With Maxtor software there is a way around this buy using their maxblast software boot-up disk and formatting and partitioning through the maxtor software. Maybe IBM has something similar.

 

[ledzepp98]

well, there's obviously no 32gig limit hurting you since it recognizes 38gigs. anyway, here's the deal...hard drive manufacturers advertise sizes based on 1 billion bytes=1 gigabyte. however, this is not technically correct...i don't remember the exact conversion but windows goes by exact size, not the "rounded size"

i have found that a very close approximation is 93%...meaning that if you multiply the manufacturers spec by .93 you will get the size windows reports

edit: a little oops, i didn't notice the part about the little red sign, i was just addressing the size discrepancy between the manufacturer and windows

 

[Duvie]

I can agree with that theory as well as my 45gig maxtor was recognized at like 43.X...My 13.6 gig HDD was like 12.X...

That kind of pisses me off...just tell us WTF we are paying for!!!

 

[Silver222]

Read the box Duvie, it's on there in VERY VERY small letters. I sympathize with you though. I'm not complaining myself anymore though, hell, I remember when hard drives were OPTIONS on computers, and 10MB was freaking huge