HDD

[George B]

I added an external HDD it was a 120 gig Maxtor with a Zynet enclosure. When
first pulged in windows found new hardware to install. When I clicked to do
the install the windows manager came up with only a 31.4 gig HDD. I wander
if any one has any idea on how to get windows to recognize the right hdd
space? It s for sure there is only one way to install the HDD in the
enclouser. It may be a compatibility. But for me I am stumped.

Thanks
George

 

[Guest]

Well could very well be the size thats formatted,the rest might be in a "raw
state".Go to run,type:diskmgmt.msc See whats up

 

[Anna]

I added an external HDD it was a 120 gig Maxtor with a Zynet enclosure.
When first pulged in windows found new hardware to install. When I clicked
to do the install the windows manager came up with only a 31.4 gig HDD. I
wander if any one has any idea on how to get windows to recognize the right
hdd space? It s for sure there is only one way to install the HDD in the
enclouser. It may be a compatibility. But for me I am stumped.

Thanks
George

George:
Is it possible that when you partitioned & formatted the Maxtor 120 GB HDD
you formatted that drive with the FAT32 file system and not NTFS? If so,
that would account for the 32 GB partition since formatting a drive FAT32 in
XP will limit that disk to 32 GB (approx).

Presumably you formatted that Maxtor using XP's Disk Management so I assume
you know how to access that utility. Why don't you do so again and start
fresh by deleting the partition(s) on the disk and formatting it NTFS?
Anna

 

[Gene K]

Do you have XP Service Pack 2 installed?
Gene K

 

[George B]

I found that the jumper was needing moved to another set of posts. After
taking it out and back in the enclosure about 50 Times,I stumbled on the
cure. But To be honest I didn't know anything about jumpers so I learned
something new. Thanks for your help all.

George