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Western Digital /MAXTOR Drives EZ Software Questionable
Due to the extended sizes > 30G Western Digital requires the use of EZ software which is NOT easily used with the FDISK (DOS) programs. MAXTOR is another hard drive that does this. If you should need to reformat parts it will not get rid of the EZ software and this area isn't even recognized by...- lonmae
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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PARTITION-Missing Max Space
Thank you for your reply. It turns out a 32G max WAS placed by an incorrectly placed jumper. I just jumpered it to the right position and now its doing well. thanks.- lonmae
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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PARTITION-Missing Max Space
I have a Hitachi 160G drive. The max size for partitions was found to be only 32G max size. This package may have been opened before. I think it is possible it was preformatted. WOuld it be possible to still get the 160G? I zeroed out the whole drive, I looked in FDISK and Partition Magic as...- lonmae
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
