Shenan Stanley wrote:
daytripper wrote:

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.


What does your BIOS say the size of the drive is?
If it is not recognized at the hardware level - my opinion is not to use it.
Yeah - you can use the "software" methods to get full size out of it - but
those things - when they go bad - go REAL bad.

Most reputable hard disk brands seem to have their own disgnostic tools
available over the 'net.

It is probably worthwhile having a looksee (some of the diags are online
interactive )