reporting hard disk size incorrectly

[axill]

I have a 60gb 2nd hard disk fitted the size reported is 31.4gb how do I get xp pro to recognise full 60 gb

 

[Korach]

Usually it dependes on your PC, not the OS. What PC do you have?

 

[NoobX]

It will not work b/c you have 2 seperate drives! With 2 seperate jumpers. Primary master slave : Secondary master and slave! Are they on the same ide cable? You can try setting the same drive letters!

 

[bcastner]

XP will not format a FAT32 filestore larger than what you observed.

Either:

. Boot from a Win98SE boot disk containing FDISK, and create a single large partition and format as FAT32; this will circumvent the XP Disk Manager 32gb limitation.

. Or, use Disk Management within XP and change to the NTFS filestore. XP natively supports large partitions with NTFS as the filestore.

Note that you could convert the drive to NTFS, and use the Diskpart command to extend the existing partition, all without losing any data:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314097

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/dm_extend_volume.mspx

 

[BadBigBen]

Stop...

Some drives have a JUMPER to cut the DISK size down to 32gb for compatibility to older HARDWARE...

Locate this jumper and disable it...

otherwise it is as BCASTNER pointed out...





Ben

If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer...

 

[axill]

I downloaded maxblast from maxtor site , followed instructions ,problem solved , xp now reports full hdd size.