What does Disk Management have to say about it?
Start|Run|diskmgmt.msc

Does cmos setup now recognize the full capacity of the drive?

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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"daytripper" wrote:
| Hi everyone,
|
| I have winxp home sp2 and a main harddrive of 30GB, this is getting rather
| full due to my purchase of a digital camera.
|
| The main 30Gb drive is a Maxtor and works well.
|
| The new 250Gb drive a Seagate works fine as well, it is installed as the
| slave, allthough this drive doesn't use jumpers.
|
| Unfortuanatley it is only recognized as a 33.8GB hard drive.
|
| This is a recognized problem that my motherboard makers say should be
solved
| by updating the BIOS on the mother board.
|
| I did this with the file they kindly sent, no joy.
|
|
|
|
| I cannot partition and format the drive from the 6 winxp home bootable
| floppies.
|
| File missing, operation cancelled.
|
| I've run Mcafee virus check, it's clean.
|
|
| As I have my files backed up on DVD's, I was thinking of disconecting the
| old hard drive, the Maxtor and rebooting to the winxp home CD and
installing
| from scratch.
|
| Then making the Maxtor drive the slave and transfering settings accros.
|
| Any ideas.
|
| Best wishes.
|
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| Thanks from daytripper