Why only 31,4GB, it should be 80GB

[Geddy Lee]

Hi Group,

I just bought myself a new 80GB Maxtor Harddrive. I plugged it in and it
sprang on. Super I thought. Until I looked at the properties and it shows
only 31,4 GB when it should be 80GB. How do I get it up to the proper
level? I remember hearing about this before but I do not remember the
solution.

All help would be gratefully appreciated

GL

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Hi Group,

I just bought myself a new 80GB Maxtor Harddrive. I plugged it in and it
sprang on. Super I thought. Until I looked at the properties and it shows
only 31,4 GB when it should be 80GB. How do I get it up to the proper
level? I remember hearing about this before but I do not remember the
solution.

All help would be gratefully appreciated

GL

When you write "it shows only 31,4 GB", what do you mean with "it"?

- The BIOS
- Windows XP Explorer?
- The Storage Manager?

 

[Geddy Lee]

In my System management. I wanted to do a format and partition the Drive and
went into computer management and then disk management. Lo and Behold, only
31,4 GB. It can't be real.

Please help

GL

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

- What does the BIOS report?
- How old is your BIOS? Is it capable of dealing with
disks greater than 32 GBytes?
- Did you check the jumpers on the disk? Some disks
can be jumpered so that their apparent capacity does
not exceed 32 GBytes.
- When you boot the machine with a Win98 boot disk
(www.bootdisk.com), then run fdisk.exe on this disk,
what does it report? What partitions can you create?

 

[Crusty \(-: Old B@stard :-\)]

It is very obvious that the O/P formatted the drive from within Windows XP
and that he chose to format as fat32, which will allow a max of 32 gig
partitions. He should use the NTFS file system to partition/format complete
drive.

Come on MVP!

--
Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Perhaps - but then I don't like to draw such conclusions without
getting more details. On the other hand the OP does appear to
be a little confused, writing "do a format and partition the Drive".
I thought it's usually done the other way round.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

If you read the OP's subsequent post then you will
see that it was, after all, a wrongly set jumper and
not a FAT32 issue.