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- foz4
Having recently purchased a Maxtor 80GB hard drive (which was a nightmare to install) it only shows up 32GB, I have read loads on how to get the bios to auto detect but my bios dosen't have this feature. The 32gb partition works fine but I'd like the rest of it... any ideas on how I can get the rest to show up??
Please help have had enough of going round and round trying to fix this....
Ta
- mbr0
Can't help, but I'd suggest going to a site like http://www.extremetech.com and posting on there.
- mbr0
Or call Maxtor.
I've got Dell workstations and their professional tech support has walked me through installing hard drives (that I bought at Best Buy), reformatting my drives, installing W2000 (in place of the XP it came with). I've never had to wait on hold, either. I LOVE the tech support for the workstations.
- mlordi0
Go to your motherboard manufacturers website and see if they have a flash bios program and see if you can get a new bios update to let you enable LBA if not you may need to put a program on your computer that will run like a bios and allow you to run the bigger drive full capacity. Western Digital used to make you do this when they had 8 gig drives. But either of those might work.
- esko0
Like mlordi said you may need to update your bios. When I got a 120GB I had to search all over the internet for a bios I could put on my machine that would accept that large of a HD, I'm assuming yours is doing the same thing.
Good Luck, it's great fun.
- rise0
sometimes, fat32/ntfs depending on the version can't read large partitions.
ie. nt4 with no service packs can only read or install on volumes larger then 8gb.
i think in sp2 or 3 they fixxed it.
get something like partion magic and make sure the drive isn't partioned if it is and theres a inactivy portion, just partition that portion.