installing a slave h/d

[Guest]

i have just installed a maxtor 120g slave h/d but when checking it says its
only a 32g how do i get windows xp to reconise its a 120 have been stummped
for a week so if any one can shed some light on what i have 2 change help
will be apprec.

thnx

 

[Dave Patrick]

It probably has a 32 gB fat32 partition on it and the rest of the space
unallocated at this point. You can confirm this in Disk Management.

Start|Run|diskmgmt.msc

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:
|i have just installed a maxtor 120g slave h/d but when checking it says its
| only a 32g how do i get windows xp to reconise its a 120 have been
stummped
| for a week so if any one can shed some light on what i have 2 change help
| will be apprec.
|
| thnx

 

[Art]

i have just installed a maxtor 120g slave h/d but when checking it says its
only a 32g how do i get windows xp to reconise its a 120 have been
stummped
for a week so if any one can shed some light on what i have 2 change help
will be apprec.

thnx

Fred:
Most likely you mistakenly set the cylinder limitation jumper on your hard
drive so that it would limit your motherboard's BIOS in recognizing the
drive larger than 32 GB. Check the jumper settings diagram on your hard
drive and remove the limiting jumper setting.
Art

 

[Sharon F]

i have just installed a maxtor 120g slave h/d but when checking it says its
only a 32g how do i get windows xp to reconise its a 120 have been stummped
for a week so if any one can shed some light on what i have 2 change help
will be apprec.

thnx

Format using NTFS instead of FAT32.

 

[Plato]

i have just installed a maxtor 120g slave h/d but when checking it says its
only a 32g how do i get windows xp to reconise its a 120 have been stummped
for a week so if any one can shed some light on what i have 2 change help
will be apprec.

The other replies are great. One missed tho, your pc may have a 32 gig
bios limitiation.