new hard drive doesn't work with K7M

[Guest]

I installed a 40GB Maxtor HD and my Asus K7M mainboard will not set it up right? I have flashed my bios? what can I do?

 

[74merc]

first off, give your problem in a little more detail.
will it not recognize it in the BIOS, or have you already set it up there?
will it not Fdisk?
not format?

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why, oh WHY, is the world run by morons?

 

[Guest]

It doesn't see my drive right see's like 32GB I tried putting some settings the maxtor program said to put in and the bios said the right size then but it was still 32GB in fdisk. and scandisk would give me some error saying there was a problem on the last drive on the last sector

<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by doodledaddle on 05/06/01 03:48 AM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[Guest]

Usually erasing all partitions and creating new ones will help! I've had similar problems with HD, mine were caused by NTFS partitions.

 

[khha4113]

Run Maxtor utility such as <b>POWERMAX</b> to diagnose your HD. There is a chance that your drive is defective.
http://www.maxtor.com/products/DiamondMax/techsupport/TechnicalProcedures/20014.htm