i have a 20 gig slave drive, but not recogonized

[greg stevenson]

as anything more than 7.87 gig drive. If i try to format
it, it wont let me tell that its a larger drive. If i hit
delete at startup, the system bios recognises the drive as
a maxtor drive and sets the size at 20.4 gigs. But after
windows starts, it only shows as 7.8 gigs. anyone have a
fix for this?. Its formatted in NTFS. Thanks in advance

 

[Mike D]

What does Disk Managment say in Win2k?

 

[greg stevenson]

Disk managment lists it as 7.87 gb ntsf....and if i go
into my maktor utility, it lists the drive as 20.4 gig,
but will only allow me to format 8.7 gig of it? very
weird. They both recognise it as 20 gig, but wont let me
format it as such,. My computer is only 1 year orl or so,
2+ gig with 1 gig ram...

 

[DL]

How is the slave disk set in the bios?
I assume the jumpers are set to slave

 

[Guest]

yes, its set as slave and jumpered as slave. bios shows it
as drive #2 and i can save and read to it. its listed as
drive h on the computer. Bios lists it as 20 gig drive.

 

[greg stevenson]

With all your help, i was able to find out that the
jumpers were wrong on the drive. it was set as a slave
drive, but the alternate capacity jumper was installed, so
even though bios recognised a 20 gig drive, it would only
use 1/2 the capacity....its working great now. thanks alot

Greg

 

[Guest]

Hello
Windows Explorer does not list the hard drive. How to fix this in Win 2000
I have the same situation as above, Slave Drive is shown in Bios and disk Manager. Can read and write to the disk but it is still not listed in Win Explorer. Any ideas? My CD-Rom is on drive D: In disk Manager my slave drive is E
Many thanks. Maxtor tech support suggest to ask Microsoft
Saganist