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Hard Drive (40GB) shows only 8GB

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HOBOcs

Discussion Starter · Mar 19, 2004

Issue: My 40GB Maxtor hard drive only shows 8GB in my computer C Drive properties. I'm moving this Disk to a "newer" PIII computer.

Request: I'm looking for direction to make it see it all. Note I am aware of some issues with BIOS's not recognizing the disk, although I don't know how to go about correcting this issue.
Any help direction appreciated.

Details:
Singel Partition - contains WinSE, MSOffice, loads of software.
BIOS was originally set to auto have since changed it to "User"

Bios details
User
Size=40024MB
Cyln=4866
Head=255
WPcom=0
Sec=63
LBA Mode=on
BLK Mode=on
PIO Mode=4
32Bit Mode=on

SYSTEM INFORMATION 19-03-2004

[ MY COMPUTER ]
BIOS Type: American Megatrends VER: 1.21.04
BIOS Date: 05/11/01
Memory: 119 Mb
Drives:
A: [DISC DRIVE]
C: [HARD DISC] 7.8 GB FAT32
D: [COMPACT DISC]

[ PROCESSOR ]
Description: intel Pentium III
Vendor: GenuineIntel
Speed: 666.57 MHz
Type: Primary
Count: 1 CPUs found
Features: FPU RDTSC MMX iSSE

[ OPERATING SYSTEM ]
Description: Windows 98 SE
Platform: Windows 95
Version: 4.10 (Build: 2222)

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brianF

· #2 · Mar 19, 2004

go to the dos prompt, run fdisk, answer yes to lba, choose option 4 to show partition information, does it show 100% usage for the c partition.
I am wondering if somehow the disk got the c partiton formated to 8 gib and the rest is unused, if so, you should be able to create an extended partition for the remainder of the drive, then create a logical drive within the extended partition to end up with two partitons, one the 8gig, the rest would be 32 gig and would be drive D, your cdrom would change to drive E.

You can also check this from maxtor
http://maxtor.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/maxtor.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=426

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brianF

· #5 · Mar 19, 2004

You should be able to create an extended dos partition, then create the logical drive to gain access to the full size of the hard drive. The new logical partition will need to be formated.
Only other way is to loose all you current date and redo the whole drive by deleting the current partition and repartitioning to the full size of the drive

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