I've built a number of computers in my day, and have lots of PC experience, I have even asked many people I know, and no one has an answer.
I built a computer for a friend last week with a DFI Lanparty NF4 SLI-D board (only relevant for driver issues, which I can't find any). Anyway, I got him a Maxtor 300GB ATA133 drive (he's never going to do RAID, but I should have gone SATA to avoid this trouble) with 16MB cache. The drive rips when it is installed, but only 34.4GB or so is recognized. The Windows installation CD recognizes it at this size, if you actually install windows, the OS shows it at this size as well. As does the BIOS of two different computers.
So I went back to the drawing board, I tried the Maxtor HDD tools (both floppy and CD based) both of them recognize it as 300GB and then format it, but the HDD tools won't run after you reboot, they give an error, and even after you format it using the Maxtor "tools", it still is only recognized as 34.4GB or whatever in the BIOS of both systems and the Windows XP CD only sees that dwarfed size as well.
So maybe it was a hardware limitation? According to Maxtor's website there is a "cap limit" jumper setting for old crappy computers to limit it to 34.4GB, but I have never had the jumper on that setting... ever.
Any ideas?
I built a computer for a friend last week with a DFI Lanparty NF4 SLI-D board (only relevant for driver issues, which I can't find any). Anyway, I got him a Maxtor 300GB ATA133 drive (he's never going to do RAID, but I should have gone SATA to avoid this trouble) with 16MB cache. The drive rips when it is installed, but only 34.4GB or so is recognized. The Windows installation CD recognizes it at this size, if you actually install windows, the OS shows it at this size as well. As does the BIOS of two different computers.
So I went back to the drawing board, I tried the Maxtor HDD tools (both floppy and CD based) both of them recognize it as 300GB and then format it, but the HDD tools won't run after you reboot, they give an error, and even after you format it using the Maxtor "tools", it still is only recognized as 34.4GB or whatever in the BIOS of both systems and the Windows XP CD only sees that dwarfed size as well.
So maybe it was a hardware limitation? According to Maxtor's website there is a "cap limit" jumper setting for old crappy computers to limit it to 34.4GB, but I have never had the jumper on that setting... ever.
Any ideas?
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