250 GB Maxtor HD

[Mesmirman]

I had someone else install my 250 GB Maxtor HD, and it was working just fine.

I just reformatted it, now it's only being read as a 127 GB HD. Even in the Windows Startup, it reads around 130,000 MB.

Any ideas on what happened and how I can fix this? Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

 

[SYAR2003]

http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/downloads/big_drive_enabler.htm

 

[aldog]

You could enter the bios setup and manually enter the hard drive's Cylinders, Sectors, and Heads to tell the Bios exactly what size the hard drive is, or you could use a disk management software by Maxtor.

 

[aldog]

Are you sure the person did not remove any CL jumper?

Some hard drives require a Cylinder Limitation jumper for the bios to recognize the hard drives size.