Windows XP fails to recognize true harddrive size (because of Maxtor)

[XiZiT]

Hey guys i'm in desperate need of help. I was using MaxBlast3, a Maxtor utility, to format my 2 Maxtor harddrives (250gb and 80gb). For the 250gb drive, MaxBlast advised me to change the hd size to 130gb so I did that and created a 2 partitions of 125gb each. For some reason while my BIOS recognized the 250gb size, Windows only sees 125gb and so does PartitionMagic... I need the other 125gb and so far no program is recognizing it. Even worse MaxBlast no longer works for me and won't bootdisk (cant create virtual disk). what do i do????? HELP!

 

[n0cmonkey]

Is service pack 1 installed?

 

[XiZiT]

No it is not.
Is there somewhere I can d/l it without having to get SP2 instead?

By the way, I read that sp1 doesnt recognize large drives, but how comes PMagic doesnt either?

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: XiZiT
No it is not.
Is there somewhere I can d/l it without having to get SP2 instead?

By the way, I read that sp1 doesnt recognize large drives, but how comes PMagic doesnt either?

You need sp1 or higher to recognize large drives (IIRC). SP2 will be fine.

 

[MrChad]

Originally posted by: XiZiT
No it is not.
Is there somewhere I can d/l it without having to get SP2 instead?

By the way, I read that sp1 doesnt recognize large drives, but how comes PMagic doesnt either?

Why not download SP2?

 

[intogamer]

Originally posted by: MrChad

Originally posted by: XiZiT
No it is not.
Is there somewhere I can d/l it without having to get SP2 instead?

By the way, I read that sp1 doesnt recognize large drives, but how comes PMagic doesnt either?

Why not download SP2?

I have sp2. I even made a windows xp pro sp2 cd. no problems.

 

[imported_aten]

i have sp2 and it will only reconize 38 gb of a 40

 

[mrpaco]

Originally posted by: aten
i have sp2 and it will only reconize 38 gb of a 40

That's because hard drive manufacturers define a gigabyte as 1 GB = 1 billion bytes. Windows on the other hand (I'm not sure about other OS's) uses a standard that says 1 GB = 1,073,741,824 bytes. The size of your hard drive will always appear smaller in Windows than what your manufacturer says it is., but the useable space is no different

 

[imported_aten]

Originally posted by: mrpaco

Originally posted by: aten
i have sp2 and it will only reconize 38 gb of a 40

That's because hard drive manufacturers define a gigabyte as 1 GB = 1 billion bytes. Windows on the other hand (I'm not sure about other OS's) uses a standard that says 1 GB = 1,073,741,824 bytes. The size of your hard drive will always appear smaller in Windows than what your manufacturer says it is.

do you know how it would look in os x />??

 

[mrpaco]

Originally posted by: aten

do you know how it would look in os x />??

I believe it is the same way, but I'm not 100% sure.