Formatting HDD

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bpspider

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Hi,
bought new HDD last night 80 gig Maxtor.
When formatting it would only format 40gig ??
Was told to change the pin settings, did that and it would only format 16gig.
The pc is reading 81gig but wont format it.

Mobo is AOpen MX6B/EZ. (could this be the problem)

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
Bpspider:Dunce: :confused:
 
change the pins back m8

my 120 gig did the same only gave me half of it when i did a format but windows finds the rest and does it as it installs m8

Hope this helps
 
Spider, what OS you running?
There are some updates for Win98 for large drives (over 37gB off the top of my head) and there's also an updated FDISK on the MS site to support big drives (all the way upto 120gB, I think..).
Does the mobo recognise it correctly? If it does it could be related to what I've said above. Did the drive not come with a floppy? That has MaxBlast on it, that will partition and format the drive for you.
 
yeah the drive should have came with a floppy to enable you format and partition it to the correct size.

There could also be a reporting issue with the Bios, see if there is any noew bios updates.

mh
 
spider if u r running xp just fit the drive xp will see it then format it when u have xp running
:)
 
Been on it for a couple of hours,will only fdisk 12.6gig.
There was no floppy with the disk. :(
Gave it to a mate to format for me, hopefully he will do it no problems.
Thanks for the advice, had to give up as I've got to be in work later.
Cheers m8's
Bpspider
 
As davidh says, if you are installing xp onto it there's no need to fdisk it, just install the drive, set your pc to boot from cd rom and insert the xp disc and reboot, XP will locate your hdd, see that it's not formatted properly and format it for you.
 
Hi all,
I'm on Windows 2000.
Will have to consider going with xp as I seem to be out of touch with everyone else.
Will also consider binning my flares and platforms.
Best
Spider :)
 
When you see 120 gig quoted as the drive size that actually is not the drive size it is the metric equiv.

as you know 1k is not 1000 bytes but 1024 bytes.

also the clusters eat some during the format for data/cache and swapfile for the drive

mh
 
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