Maxtor One Touch 120GB rated, reads 642.46GB

[hh]

I've found heaps of references to windows reporting smaller than rated
capacity, but larger?
I can format a partition of 117GB with Windows XP or Win2k using Disk
Management tool, yet when formatting, the end message reads, "format failed
to complete".

Any ideas appreciated!

 

[BigJim]

could be a defective drive

 

[hh]

k, will post some chkdsk readings, see if they make any sense to someone.

 

[Dave]

It sounds like it think it's bigger (more heads, cylinders etc) than the
drive really is. Can you manually set those parameters in the CMOS instead
of auto-detect?