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Why does my 60GB Maxtor HDD only register as 44GB in the BIOS?

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bupkus

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The drive is a model 94610U6 with 5400rpm. The mainboard is a Soyo SY-P4I865PE Plus DRAGON 2 V1.0 with their most recent BIOS.
Inside the bios I have the following:

Device: Hard Disk
Vendor: Maxtor 94610U6
Sizd: 46.1GB
LBA Mode: Supported
Block Mode: 16Sectors
PIO Mode: 4
Async DMA: MultiWord DMA-2
Ultra DMA: Ultra DMA-4
S.M.A.R.T.: Supported

Adjustable settings:
Type Auto
LBA/Large Mode Auto
Block (Multi-Sector Transfer) Auto
PIO Mode Auto
DMA Mode Auto
S.M.A.R.T. Auto
32Bit Data Transfer Enabled

Link to Maxtor 94610U6

Can anyone explain this?
Thanks.
 
. . . and if a compatiblity jumper was set on the drive, it would format to around 30 GB.


Maybe there is another partition on the drive? Possibly a hidden primary partition? [ No, that wouldn't affect the BIOS. ]
 
Reset CMOS. Probably won't do anything but just try it 😉

EDIT: Most mangled spelling of "reset" ever.
 
I was forced to do a reset when I first booted this rebuild. It's formatting now and man is this drive slow. I wish I could remember where I got this POS.

BTW, if you click on the above link to Maxtor, scroll down to a small table that lists this drive as 46.1GB. :roll:
 
Heh... 94610U6 as opposed to the 96147U8. Anyway, old Maxtor drives suck... they suck a lot. I had one that was SO LOUD that it actually drowned out the noise of my 5500 RPM CoolerMaster CPU fan. I thought the noise from my old PC was due to the fans, and so I decided to fix it one day. I started unplugging the fans one by one, and then eventually they were all unplugged and I hadn't found the real noise culprit. Enter the DiamondMax 30 drive I was using. I don't think it was always that loud, but apparently the bearings were dying. Spend $70 and get one of the new Samsung or Seagate drives, I say! 😛
 
😕😱Damn, guys, you ares right! It says just that on the label. I wonder where in the world... ok, now I know where I got that thing. I do have a 60GB Maxtor somewhere around but I got this from an old HP I cannibalized that had a 600MHz cpu. I can't deliver this computer to my niece. Now I have to install Ghost so I can transfer all this set-up work to a new 80G WD I have on the shelf. First I lose my Norton 2004 CDs, and now I do this. I think maybe those migraines are starting to have a cumulative effect on my brain.

Thanks all for your help.
 
Originally posted by: bupkus
I was forced to do a reset when I first booted this rebuild. It's formatting now and man is this drive slow.
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It doesn't take long at all when a faster technology like 7200 rpm's, and/or 8K drive caches, comes into our lives, and the older stuff does seem terribly slow. But I remember how pleased I was at the speed boost the faster drive gave to my older Thunderbird 1.33 -- it got the first of the faster ones because its drives were so close to being filled . .



😀
 
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