Problems with installing a 80GB Maxtor HD

[nagibbs]

I am trying to install a new Harddrive in an older system (BH6 mb and PIII 1000mhz processor). The harddrive is a Maxtor 80gb (the one from OD) and is a 7200 rpm drive. When I boot from a Windows 98 floppy startup disk and then run fdisk it only sees 12gb of the harddrive. I created a Maxblast bootable floppy and tried this also to no avail. The jumper is set for master only and the drive is on the last connector on the strap (no other ides devices connected). I have used fdisk many times in the past with no problems. Any suggestions? Also, the CMOS hard drive detection menu correctly identifies the drive as an 80gb drive. What next and thanks?

r.gibbs@insightbb.com

 

[dpm]

I can't figure out where the 12gb figure comes from, if your BIOS is reading the drive correctly. I remember that one old version of windows (win98 osr1?) had a 32 gig limitation, but I don't remember a 12gig one anywhere.
When I've used Maxtor drives in the past I've always used Maxblast (the cd version) which I thought was great - never any problems with it, tho I have with windows boot disks.

One thought - do Maxtor drives have cylinder limitation settings/switches? Could that be anything to do with it?

Could you try installing it on a different maching as a slave drive, and seeing if the full 80gb is recognised?

 

[lenjack]

Why not give Maxtor a call?

 

[alm4rr]

Try this
It's the Intel INF Update Released Date: 2003-04-14
- Revision v3.20
- Windows 2000/95/95 OSR 2.x/98/98 SE/Me/XP Home & Professional

You can read it's page b4 dl'n here

also
check out
here for bios info

According to the data, I don't see support for 1000 mhz cpu's But, it has a section for bios update that "May" work for >40g Hd's...