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Old December 17th 05, 11:53 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
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Default My machine does not recognize new hard drive size.

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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  #2  
Old December 18th 05, 12:21 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
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Default My machine does not recognize new hard drive size.

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.


http://www.seagate.com/

diagnostics and utilities?
  #3  
Old December 18th 05, 12:27 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
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Default My machine does not recognize new hard drive size.

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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"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.
|
|
| --
| Thanks from daytripper


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Old December 18th 05, 12:45 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
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Default My machine does not recognize new hard drive size.

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.


By the way, thanks for your post.

I popped over to seagates website just to refresh my memory and see if
there is any new stuff, went into diags and downloaded an offered
optimising update that I had missed

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Old December 18th 05, 12:56 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
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Default My machine does not recognize new hard drive size.

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.

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Old December 18th 05, 06:26 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
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Default My machine does not recognize new hard drive size.

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 )
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Old December 20th 05, 09:50 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
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Default My machine does not recognize new hard drive size.

Thanks everyone, my motherboard makers were talking about it being a faulty
hard drive.


Anyhow I'll follow your advice and hope it works out.

Thanks for taking the time out to help me, have a great holiday, best wishes.
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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.


--
Thanks from daytripper

 




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