Wrong hard drive size

#1 May 26th 04, 05:32 PM

Hello,

My 60GB hard drive is showing up at post and bios as a 60MB hard drive. It
had been working with no problems. In windows it shows the drive as being
60GB, but still treats the drive with only 60MB

It is a maxtor drive so I used the diagnostic programs and they showed no
problems with the drive.

My 80GB hard drive works just fine.

Any thoughts to why this is occuring?

Thanks

#2 May 26th 04, 05:44 PM

My PC acts similarly, I can set the size of my maxtor 80 Gb drive to any
size in bios, but windows still sees it as a 80 Gb. Try altering the size in
bios, it won't make any difference.

"skooz" wrote in message
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Hello,

My 60GB hard drive is showing up at post and bios as a 60MB hard drive. It
had been working with no problems. In windows it shows the drive as being
60GB, but still treats the drive with only 60MB

It is a maxtor drive so I used the diagnostic programs and they showed no
problems with the drive.

My 80GB hard drive works just fine.

Any thoughts to why this is occuring?

Thanks

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