Hard drive

[79mustang]

My system has a Quantam 60 gig HD that has been working fine. It is Fat 32 running WinXp. I needed more storage space so I bought a 120 gig, Maxtor 7200 HD. When I formatted it with the Max 3 software that came with it. It only show's 30 gig. I bought a SCSI board but dont think I need it. The computor store I bought it from, says that there is probably a jumper setting on the drive to let the computer see all of the drive. Why would there be a jumper setting and where could it be? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[wolluf]

Some drives have a restricted jumper setting for backward compatibility with older motherboards (eg, there's a known limit of 32GB - so jumper would restrict drive to that). Your drive should have jumper settings printed on it, on documentation that came with it and you'll find them on manufacturer's website.

 

[79mustang]

Thanks for the help. The hard drive didnt have a jumper on it but I formatted it useing the computer management program in xp. It found the other gigs I was looking for but when I had it formatted with only 2, 15 gig partitions, I put some of my video on one of the partitions. About 6 gigs worth. When it found the other gigs, it has taken that 6 gigs out. How can I get those back? Is there something that would wipe the hard drive clean so I could start from scratch? It now shows 114 gig, out of 120. Thanks for the help.

 

[wolluf]

the 114GB is just due to different definitions of a gigabyte. Drive manufacturers generally use 1,000,000,000. Others use 1024x1024x1024 or 1024x1024x1000 or 1024x1000x1000. The second of those would return 114GB for a disk defined as 120GB on the 1,000,000,000 bytes basis.

 

[79mustang]

Thanks, it puts my mind at ease a little to find out that it is still 120 gigs. You've been a great help.