Maxtor 45gig HD reported as only 33.8 gig, what gives?

[nexialist]

I Finally installed one of those cool Staples Maxtor 45 gig hard drives on a new K&T pro2-A board. I fdisked one 45g partition and formated using the Win98SE boot disk.

Fdisk only reported 33.8g, but after installing Win98SE DOS reports the full 45g. During bootup the drive also reports 33.8g.

Another thing that bothers me is that Norton reports that "drive x may not be configured correctly...." and will not check it, while System suite reports no problems.

I installed the another identical Maxtor 45 on an ABIT K7T Raid board and have the same problem.

Do I have a problem?

 

[urbantechie]

Well, is LBA enabled? Is your CMOS flashed to the newest version? Check, it might just be a older CMOS version.

 

[nexialist]

Urbantechie,

Yep LBA, ATA 100 is enabled for both my drives, also I have the most current bios from MSI.

according to FDISK: (Bios at boot reports same as FDISK)

Disk 1 (active) = 43,967mb FAT32 100%, but, Maxtor 45mb, 7200
total disk space= 32,248mb

Disk 2 = 19,540mb FAT32 Maxtor 20mb 7200
total disk space = 19540

From DOS prompt and Windows explorer I see the full amount. Maybe it's a DOS limit thing.

System is very stable, no problems, but I have not optimized it yet.

K7T Pro2-A
AMD T-bird 800 not O/C
256 Mosel Vitalic cas2 mem
Matrox g400 32mb video
Soundblaster live, value
3Com 10/100 nic
Yamaha 8/4/24 CDRW

 

[uncouth]

I have the same problem with my 45 gig IBM... it shows allows only 33gigs on but claims there are 42 (capacity) full.

If someone could help our mutual problems I would be thankful. Win2k over here.

 

[Dan]

Check the jumpers on the drive itself and make sure they are correctly set.

 

[LXi]

There is a 32GB cap jumper somewhere, you need to disable it to get the rest of your space.

 

[DaddyG]

I think that some versions of FDISK have trouble reporting the correct amount of space on the drive.

 

[Vinny N]

I think that's a problem with 98SE...

Don't run scandisk on that thing until you get this patch:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows98/downloads/contents/WURecommended/S_WUFeatured/bigide/Default.asp

I don't know if it'll address your exact issue, but it does deal with a 32+ gb IDE hard drive issue.

 

[nexialist]

Fdisk reported correctly after the jumpers were properly placed.

They had been limiting the drive to 32 mb (as if it were a legacy drive).

Maxtor should put the diagrams on the drive itself (like everyone else). My fault tho for not doing a due diligence.