Win2K help

[narzy]

ok here is my problem:

I have a 20 gig HD, but windows wont see anything past 7.86 GB's of it, I've tried formating, and Fdisking, and nothing is seeming to work.

if you could help me out he I would be greatly aprecitive.

 

[Slikkster]

You're talking about the Maxtor, right? Have you tried using their MaxBlast software to do the "fdisking"/partitioning, etc.? Does it show as 20G in the bios? In Device Manager, do you see any problems with the IDE/ATA/ATAPI Controllers section?

 

[narzy]

this would be maxtor,

no I have not tried maxblast.
in the bios it sees the entire drive
no there is no problem in device manager with atapi/ata/IDE.

Ill try max blast. any other ideas?

 

[Slikkster]

Is the drive jumpered correctly? In other words, if the 6 gig drive is your primary drive on the Master end of the IDE cable, is the 20G drive jumpered as a slave (the jumper pin on the back of the drive)? Have you tried it on a separate IDE Controller?

Just ran across this article...will investigate more but for now read the first paragraph:

Maxtor and Win2K SP1

 

[narzy]

ya its set right on the back of the drive.

and yes I've tried different IDE chans

 

[Slikkster]

OK, have you tried using Windows 2000's Disk Manager to see what it's reporting? For example, it may be possible that it's only seeing a certain amount of partitioned/formatted space, but maybe more is showing up as unallocated...

Start/Administrative Tools folder and select Computer Management, Storage, Disk Management...

Seems like you're savvy about a lot of this stuff, so hope you're not offended by the suggestions...just trying to think of everything.

 

[AC]

is it set to auto or lba translation mode in the bios setup?

 

[narzy]

Im savvy about computers, however a newbie at win2k

in disk managment it only shows 7.88gb, none unallicated. I think its a problem with SP1 I am uninstalling it if that does not fix it, I may format the drive and reload windoze. I have narrowed it to windows because the drive reads everywhere else. except in windows programs and windows itself.

 

[narzy]

the bios is set to auto (which has set it to LBA translation automaticly.)

 

[narzy]

ok uninstalling SP1 fixed it, grrr! I formatted the drive for no "GOOD" reason!

 

[Usul]

Wen i installed SP1, win would load up to the password screen and die.
i had to format the damn HDD.
I'm waiting for SP56 .....
By that time should be ok with the HW i have now ( and obviously way behind the newer ...)

 

[Slikkster]

Well, I'd try reinstalling sp1 now...now that you know what caused it. Maybe something didn't take correctly. Glad to be of assistance.