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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Thanks from daytripper