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re: Maxtor 40GB H/D giving me 6.97 GB Why?? Wednesday, August 3, 2005 at 2:50 pm Posted by Jack Gulley (5917 messages posted) Could be because your system BIOS is real old. The older versions of BIOS (system board hardware) do not support larger disk drives. There are several "limits" that have been a problem. Most likely your system BIOS only "supports" disk drives up to 32GB and your system board BIOS is limiting Windows FDISK from seeing the drive size by only giving it access to the MOD 32 size. (40GB MOD 32GB = 8GB) First step is to look up your system board and its BIOS version at the system board or system makers web site and see what size disk drives it supports. Then see if they have a BIOS upgrade to support larger disk drives. Most have upgrades to support 64GB limit, or larger. Another option is to down load or install drivers provided by the disk drive manufacture. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Maxtor 40GB H/D giving me 6.97 GB Why?? Wednesday, August 3, 2005 at 11:32 pm Posted by Aun (112 messages posted) i had the same problem once with my HD. i downloaded a program called Partition Magic and it showed me a huge amout of drive space was unused. i just had to make a few changes and got the space back. there are many programs like this one. try searching the web. And yea, the hd will show u lower disk space then it actually says, but the diffrence is only of about a gig or 2. On Wednesday, August 3, 2005 at 1:58 pm, Ricky wrote: >I have two problems really but the first being the harddrive I recently brought, >I had brought a 40GB harddrive and when I set it up it only gave me 6.97GB why is >this? > >I am running windows ME and I do realise you never get the full amount as quoted >on the box but I did expect more than 6.97GB out of 40GB, is there any way I can >change the amount of disk space on my drive through windows? > >Windows didn't find the new hardware automatically I had to do it manually, is it >a partition problem? > >Anyone who can give me some advice on this problem and how to sort out this problem >would be greatly appreciated? > >Thanks for your help in advance and I look forward to hearing from you. > >Thanks, > >Ricky [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Maxtor 40GB H/D giving me 6.97 GB Why?? Thursday, August 4, 2005 at 8:42 am Posted by MarkosJal (2 messages posted) Here is My advice whgich presents the Logical steps to take. First make sure you have Jumpers for master slave set correctly on all drives, and that the master drive is always connected to the END of the cable while slave is connected in the middle Second, make sure you have proper BIOS support for the drive. Usually the easiest way to do this is to enter in the BIOS setup, and select AUTO for that drive. Some BIOSes you must also put the LBA selection in manually or select AUTO as well. Third, windows SHOULD detect the drive automatically once it is properly configured. Notes> if your BIOS date shows something older than 1999, your system may support a maximum sixe of 8 Gig. IF that is the case, you can install Maxtor's drive installation utilities which should be available on the maxtor web site. * I think you said the drive was a MAxtor. I have a system with a BIOS date of 1997 and it supports larger than 8 Gig drives. However too , I ALWAYS use the MAxtor Utility on my Maxtor drives, because I frequently move drives from system to system. When I move them, I have no problem reading them on whatever system. Some versions of the maxtor utilities also include diagnostics, to see if you hjave a BIOS incompatibility or whether you need the software. At least, they check compatibility and format the drive usually ensuring greatest compatibility. On Wednesday, August 3, 2005 at 11:32 pm, Aun wrote: >i had the same problem once with my HD. i downloaded a program called Partition Magic >and it showed me a huge amout of drive space was unused. i just had to make a few >changes and got the space back. there are many programs like this one. try searching >the web. >And yea, the hd will show u lower disk space then it actually says, but the diffrence >is only of about a gig or 2. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Me Discussion Forum