Hard Drive Iritation

[ivor]

Hi i hope someone can help me as im at a serious loss here. i have a Fujitsu MPE3173AE(17,34gb) C(16383) H(16) S(63) HD which i cannot get to work correctly with fdisk..In the bios it shows as, size(17340) cyl(2108) head(255) precomp(0) landz(33597) sector(63) in LBA mode..Fdisk only sees 8 mg. I do enable large disk sapport in fdisk..no matter what i try i cant get the full size. i havnt had a reply from Fujitsu either.

Hopefully someone can help me as im about to fling the HD out the window

Thanx ahead
ivor knowles

 

[Alt255]

I have the same problem with a 20gb Maxtor I am currently using as a paperweight. The hardware recognizes it but the OS doesn't know how to deal with it.

You don't happen to be using an OS less than Win95B?

Ivor, don't fling it out the window yet (those things are great for holding down a stack of bills). Post back with some details:

What kind of hardware and operating system? Did the HD come with drivers? Does the OS accept the drivers? Are the HD BIOS specs you listed a result of a drive "Auto-Detect" or did you have to enter them manually?

Too many possibilities... not enough time to speculate...

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My OS is WIN98. There were no drivers with the HD. The above information is from the bios auto detect. The bios is an upgrade. I dont know if this is playing a part in my frustration.

 

[edfair]

Think you are fighting a losing battle. How about creating an extended partition then assigning that space to additional drives.
Haven't fought with 98 yet over the issue, but 95 was limited to 6 gb and NT was 4 gb primary partitions on some HP stuff I worked with.
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[Karl Blessing]

Ditto same problem here, I have a 61Gig harddrive, I went to Maxtor site and downloaded MaxBlast, it's maxtors version of the well known WesternDigital EZ-Disk
, which basically reports your harddrive size correctly if your BIOS cant support it, I Recomend you to try to find something similar. I got my Win98SE on a 10G partition, Win2k using the rest of the partition (also keep in mind just creating partition sizes wont help, if the BIOS cant reconize the actual hardware correctly) [sig]<p>Karl<br><a href=mailto:kb244@kb244.com>kb244@kb244.com</a><br><a href=

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[bujin]

I agree with Karl. I bought a Maxtor 10Gb HD last year and for AGES I couldn't work out why Windows wasn't recognising it. Then I read the manual (well, leaflet, anyway) that came with the drive which pointed me towards the MaxBlast application on the Maxtor site. It works fine now. Funny thing is, though, I bought a Maxtor 6.4Gb HD for another computer I was building a few weeks ago, and it didn't need any drivers - it worked first time, straight off.

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[Karl Blessing]

like I mentioned earlier, depending on the age of your bios, there are certain barriers, like the really old 486 bios, cant read past 512Megs, then there was 2Gig barrier, than 8Gig barrier, my bios (only a year old) seems to have a 32Gig barrier, now that I have the EZDrive type of software on my bootloader, it reads it as a full 61Gig. [sig]<p>Karl<br><a href=mailto:kb244@kb244.com>kb244@kb244.com</a><br><a href=

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