Hard Disk Recognition Error

I remember when i used to be good with PC's (Those days are now gone)

I bought an 80Gb maxtor hard disk to run on my PC as a slave to my 40Gb
disk. Unfortunately windows ME will not recognise it as an 80 and only
recognises it as an 8GB disk. I'm sure that i have read of a fix for this
(apart from upgrading) and if anyone can help me then it would be most
appreciated.

FYI my motherboard and bios recognise the disk as an 80Gb so i'm lost.

Look forward to hearing from you soon.

Cheers people

"Mark the fool" Mark the wrote in message
news
I remember when i used to be good with PC's (Those days are now gone)

I bought an 80Gb maxtor hard disk to run on my PC as a slave to my 40Gb
disk. Unfortunately windows ME will not recognise it as an 80 and only
recognises it as an 8GB disk. I'm sure that i have read of a fix for this
(apart from upgrading) and if anyone can help me then it would be most
appreciated.

FYI my motherboard and bios recognise the disk as an 80Gb so i'm lost.

Look forward to hearing from you soon.

Cheers people

There's plenty of people more expert than I here, but what happens when you
right click on the drive in Explorer? Is all 80GB formatted, or is some
not? As your question is dealing with powers of 10, perhaps you've just made
a mental mistake.

If you can, reformat the slave drive, see if that doesn't fix it.

Oh, and post to microsoft.public.windowsme.general for a faster response. I
thought that's where I was reading this.

"ng_reader" wrote in message
...

"Mark the fool" Mark the wrote in message
news
I remember when i used to be good with PC's (Those days are now gone)

I bought an 80Gb maxtor hard disk to run on my PC as a slave to my 40Gb
disk. Unfortunately windows ME will not recognise it as an 80 and only
recognises it as an 8GB disk. I'm sure that i have read of a fix for
this
(apart from upgrading) and if anyone can help me then it would be most
appreciated.

FYI my motherboard and bios recognise the disk as an 80Gb so i'm lost.

Look forward to hearing from you soon.

Cheers people

There's plenty of people more expert than I here, but what happens when
you
right click on the drive in Explorer? Is all 80GB formatted, or is some
not? As your question is dealing with powers of 10, perhaps you've just
made
a mental mistake.

If you can, reformat the slave drive, see if that doesn't fix it.

hey,

thanks for the reply. when i installed the drive it was already formatted
with around 64 gigabytes of data on it. when i installed it on my pc, windows
me stated that it was not formatted and i thus formatted the drive (duh)
after this the system only recognises it as an 8 gigabyte drive.

any further help would be appreciated.

cheers again

mark

hey,

thanks for the reply. when i installed the drive it was already formatted
with around 64 gigabytes of data on it. when i installed it on my pc, windows
me stated that it was not formatted and i thus formatted the drive (duh)
after this the system only recognises it as an 8 gigabyte drive.

any further help would be appreciated.

cheers again

mark

hey,

thanks for getting back to me. your right this did take ages. microsoft suck
as they actually referred me to this page for help and they didnt answer my
question. great company eh?

anyhoo on with my reply. i actually got the disk blank and loaned it to my
friend who put 64 gigabytes of data on it for me. when i installed it windows
me stated it was not formatted and i formatted it (duh!!!!). after this it
only recognises it as an 8 gigabyte.

cheers again for getting back but any other help would be appreciated.

mark

"ng_reader" wrote:

Oh, and post to microsoft.public.windowsme.general for a faster response. I
thought that's where I was reading this.

"ng_reader" wrote in message
...

"Mark the fool" Mark the wrote in message
news
I remember when i used to be good with PC's (Those days are now gone)

I bought an 80Gb maxtor hard disk to run on my PC as a slave to my 40Gb
disk. Unfortunately windows ME will not recognise it as an 80 and only
recognises it as an 8GB disk. I'm sure that i have read of a fix for
this
(apart from upgrading) and if anyone can help me then it would be most
appreciated.

FYI my motherboard and bios recognise the disk as an 80Gb so i'm lost.

Look forward to hearing from you soon.

Cheers people

There's plenty of people more expert than I here, but what happens when
you
right click on the drive in Explorer? Is all 80GB formatted, or is some
not? As your question is dealing with powers of 10, perhaps you've just
made
a mental mistake.

If you can, reformat the slave drive, see if that doesn't fix it.

This sounds as if it's a hardware issue, and you're running with an old
motherboard that will only support 8GB drives - if this is the case then you
need to either update the BIOS on the motherboard or install Drive Overlay
software (from the drive manufacturer's website)

--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows)

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm

http://tinyurl.com/6oztj

Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's

"Mark the fool" wrote in message
...
hey,

thanks for getting back to me. your right this did take ages. microsoft
suck
as they actually referred me to this page for help and they didnt answer
my
question. great company eh?

anyhoo on with my reply. i actually got the disk blank and loaned it to my
friend who put 64 gigabytes of data on it for me. when i installed it
windows
me stated it was not formatted and i formatted it (duh!!!!). after this it
only recognises it as an 8 gigabyte.

cheers again for getting back but any other help would be appreciated.

mark

"ng_reader" wrote:

Oh, and post to microsoft.public.windowsme.general for a faster response.
I
thought that's where I was reading this.

"ng_reader" wrote in message
...

"Mark the fool" Mark the wrote in
message
news I remember when i used to be good with PC's (Those days are now gone)

I bought an 80Gb maxtor hard disk to run on my PC as a slave to my
40Gb
disk. Unfortunately windows ME will not recognise it as an 80 and
only
recognises it as an 8GB disk. I'm sure that i have read of a fix for
this
(apart from upgrading) and if anyone can help me then it would be
most
appreciated.

FYI my motherboard and bios recognise the disk as an 80Gb so i'm
lost.

Look forward to hearing from you soon.

Cheers people

There's plenty of people more expert than I here, but what happens when
you
right click on the drive in Explorer? Is all 80GB formatted, or is
some
not? As your question is dealing with powers of 10, perhaps you've just
made
a mental mistake.

If you can, reformat the slave drive, see if that doesn't fix it.

Yes, it could be that the drive is bad, but I think you may have a
misunderstanding somewhere.

There has never been a hard disk that held 64 gigabytes of data. 40,60,80
but never 64.

Does your FDISK (command prompt FDISK, menus) see the whole drive, or not?

Again, sorry for the slow reply.

Perhaps you ought post in the other NG as well.
"Mark the fool" wrote in message
...
hey,

thanks for getting back to me. your right this did take ages. microsoft
suck
as they actually referred me to this page for help and they didnt answer
my
question. great company eh?

anyhoo on with my reply. i actually got the disk blank and loaned it to my
friend who put 64 gigabytes of data on it for me. when i installed it
windows
me stated it was not formatted and i formatted it (duh!!!!). after this it
only recognises it as an 8 gigabyte.

cheers again for getting back but any other help would be appreciated.

mark

"ng_reader" wrote:

Oh, and post to microsoft.public.windowsme.general for a faster
response. I
thought that's where I was reading this.

"ng_reader" wrote in message
...

"Mark the fool" Mark the wrote in
message
news I remember when i used to be good with PC's (Those days are now
gone)

I bought an 80Gb maxtor hard disk to run on my PC as a slave to my
40Gb
disk. Unfortunately windows ME will not recognise it as an 80 and
only
recognises it as an 8GB disk. I'm sure that i have read of a fix for
this
(apart from upgrading) and if anyone can help me then it would be
most
appreciated.

FYI my motherboard and bios recognise the disk as an 80Gb so i'm
lost.

Look forward to hearing from you soon.

Cheers people

There's plenty of people more expert than I here, but what happens
when
you
right click on the drive in Explorer? Is all 80GB formatted, or is
some
not? As your question is dealing with powers of 10, perhaps you've
just
made
a mental mistake.

If you can, reformat the slave drive, see if that doesn't fix it.

64 GB is a Win98 limitation of some kind, I vaguely recall.

Rick


ng_reader wrote:
Yes, it could be that the drive is bad, but I think you may have a
misunderstanding somewhere.

There has never been a hard disk that held 64 gigabytes of data. 40,60,80
but never 64.

Does your FDISK (command prompt FDISK, menus) see the whole drive, or not?

Again, sorry for the slow reply.

Perhaps you ought post in the other NG as well.
"Mark the fool" wrote in message
...

hey,

thanks for getting back to me. your right this did take ages. microsoft

suck

as they actually referred me to this page for help and they didnt answer

my

question. great company eh?

anyhoo on with my reply. i actually got the disk blank and loaned it to my
friend who put 64 gigabytes of data on it for me. when i installed it

windows

me stated it was not formatted and i formatted it (duh!!!!). after this it
only recognises it as an 8 gigabyte.

cheers again for getting back but any other help would be appreciated.

mark

"ng_reader" wrote:


Oh, and post to microsoft.public.windowsme.general for a faster

response. I

thought that's where I was reading this.

"ng_reader" wrote in message
...

"Mark the fool" Mark the wrote in

message

news
I remember when i used to be good with PC's (Those days are now

gone)

I bought an 80Gb maxtor hard disk to run on my PC as a slave to my

40Gb

disk. Unfortunately windows ME will not recognise it as an 80 and

only

recognises it as an 8GB disk. I'm sure that i have read of a fix for

this

(apart from upgrading) and if anyone can help me then it would be

most

appreciated.

FYI my motherboard and bios recognise the disk as an 80Gb so i'm

lost.

Look forward to hearing from you soon.

Cheers people

There's plenty of people more expert than I here, but what happens

when

you

right click on the drive in Explorer? Is all 80GB formatted, or is

some

not? As your question is dealing with powers of 10, perhaps you've

just

made

a mental mistake.

If you can, reformat the slave drive, see if that doesn't fix it.

No - there was a 32GB limit, and an 8GB limit - and even a 2GB limit
(FAT16) - anything else is either hardware/BIOS related, or artificial.
the next limit above 32GB is 128GB (or thereabouts) where FAT32 begins to
run foul of space - but that's another matter altogether.

--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows)

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm

http://tinyurl.com/6oztj

Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's

"Rick T" wrote in message
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64 GB is a Win98 limitation of some kind, I vaguely recall.

Rick


ng_reader wrote:
Yes, it could be that the drive is bad, but I think you may have a
misunderstanding somewhere.

There has never been a hard disk that held 64 gigabytes of data. 40,60,80
but never 64.

Does your FDISK (command prompt FDISK, menus) see the whole drive, or
not?

Again, sorry for the slow reply.

Perhaps you ought post in the other NG as well.
"Mark the fool" wrote in message
...

hey,

thanks for getting back to me. your right this did take ages. microsoft

suck

as they actually referred me to this page for help and they didnt answer

my

question. great company eh?

anyhoo on with my reply. i actually got the disk blank and loaned it to
my
friend who put 64 gigabytes of data on it for me. when i installed it

windows

me stated it was not formatted and i formatted it (duh!!!!). after this
it
only recognises it as an 8 gigabyte.

cheers again for getting back but any other help would be appreciated.

mark

"ng_reader" wrote:


Oh, and post to microsoft.public.windowsme.general for a faster

response. I

thought that's where I was reading this.

"ng_reader" wrote in message
...

"Mark the fool" Mark the wrote in

message

news
I remember when i used to be good with PC's (Those days are now

gone)

I bought an 80Gb maxtor hard disk to run on my PC as a slave to my

40Gb

disk. Unfortunately windows ME will not recognise it as an 80 and

only

recognises it as an 8GB disk. I'm sure that i have read of a fix for

this

(apart from upgrading) and if anyone can help me then it would be

most

appreciated.

FYI my motherboard and bios recognise the disk as an 80Gb so i'm

lost.

Look forward to hearing from you soon.

Cheers people

There's plenty of people more expert than I here, but what happens

when

you

right click on the drive in Explorer? Is all 80GB formatted, or is

some

not? As your question is dealing with powers of 10, perhaps you've

just

made

a mental mistake.

If you can, reformat the slave drive, see if that doesn't fix it.