drive not reading right

Y

You Know Who ~

just installed a new Maxtor 200 gig drive, moved files using Seagate
program. But now, the old drive which was 140 gig, is reading as only 31.2
gigs. Bios reads the drive correctly. Using win xp SP2. Tried formatting,
but it remains at 31 gigs. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
thanks in advance
 
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Paul

You said:
just installed a new Maxtor 200 gig drive, moved files using Seagate
program. But now, the old drive which was 140 gig, is reading as only 31.2
gigs. Bios reads the drive correctly. Using win xp SP2. Tried formatting,
but it remains at 31 gigs. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
thanks in advance

Some IDE drives have an option for a "32GB clip jumper".
Have you been changing jumpers lately ?

Getting a full picture of the jumper options sometimes
requires getting the tech manual for the drive - the label
on the drive may not show the existence of the 32GB clip
jumper location.

Paul
 
Y

You Know Who ~

Thank you so much. I was going nuts on this, and you were exactly right. I
jumpered the thing to clip. All is working now.
 

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