xazos79

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Hi all,
I have a workmate who bought a 40gig h/d on the weekend. When he created his partition and formatted etc... his available capacity went down to 32gig. Is this right? To me it seems like he lost a lot more space then he should have when he formatted. The drive is a Maxtor 40gig.

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Lars_Coleman

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Check the jumpers on the drive. You could be using the Cylinder Limitation jumper (J46), or you have the Alternate Capacity jumper set (AC jumper only on Quantum and newer Maxtor seires of drives). It could also be a BIOS setting. Your BIOS could probably only support 32GB. In that case you would want a BIOS update, use the Maxblast, or a controller card.

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AMD_Man

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Hmm, I know that if you format a hard drive in FAT32 under Windows XP you'll be limited to 32GB.

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xazos79

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Yeah, but the drive shows up as 32gb in the bios too. Wouldn't that be independant of what it's formatted in? He's flashed the bios too BTW but nothing has changed.
 

xazos79

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Tried the BIOS flash and nothing changed. He looked for different jumpers but couldn't find anything. He hasn't used Maxblast yet though. What is it exactly anyway?
 

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If the BIOS doesn't support the drive Maxblast will install a program/overlay on the MBR of the drive that helps you see the full capacity of drives on system's that don't support them.

Might not be compatible with any NT operating system (IE Windows NT, 2000, and XP).

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