Motherboard does not recognize large hard drive

[TheInformer]

I have a 60 gig 7200 RPM Maxtor hard drive.

My Gigabyte 7IEX4 motherboard only recognizes it as a 32 gig drive (so that means Win98SE and WinXP only recognize 32 gigs as well).

The BIOS has been flashed to the latest version so that's not the problem.

Has anyone else run into this?

[Mirror_Image]

You'll need to either partition it to have partitions of 32MB or less, or else format the drive with NTFS. The FAT32 file system has a partition size limit of 32MB, but NTFS (for all intents and purposes) has no volume size limit.

To quote Microsoft:

"You cannot format a volume larger than 32 GB in size using the FAT32 file system in Windows 2000. The Windows 2000 FastFAT driver can mount and support volumes larger than 32 GB that use the FAT32 file system (subject to the other limits), but you cannot create one using the Format tool. This behavior is by design. If you need to create a volume larger than 32 GB, use the NTFS file system instead."

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q184006

[TheInformer]

Mirror,

My BIOS doesn't recognize the drive as a 60 gig drive. I go into CMOS setup and it tells me I have a 32 gig drive.

I have the drive formatted as NTFS under WinXP.


BTW, I think you meant 'GB' and not 'MB' below...

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You'll need to either partition it to have partitions
of 32MB or less, or else format the drive with NTFS.
The FAT32 file system has a partition size limit of
32MB, but NTFS (for all intents and purposes) has
no volume size limit._________________________

[sommersby]

Most hard drive manufactures have software that gets around this problem, I'm surethat maxtor must have it also but not ever owning a maxtor I am not 100% sure, check their website, I had a friend that had the same problem with a WD and the disk it came with fixed the problem.

[magelucid]

The software is called MaxBlast and you can get it from the link below...

http://www.maxtor.com/products/diamondmax/software/maxblast/default.htm

[RoopeT]

You cannot format a volume larger than 32 GB in size using the FAT32 file system in Windows 2000

Strange ... I recently added a 60 gig samsung drive to my system and formatted it as a single FAT32 partition (I'm running Win98se, XP and Linux and want the partition to be available for all OS). Maybe it's just with Win 2000 and probably without SPs, so the information is somewhat old. Or the fact that I used Partition Magic 7 to create the partition.

ANYWAY, YOU CAN HAVE A FAT32 PARTITION LARGER THAN 32 GB!

[Triffid]

I agree withRoopeT, you can definately have sigle partition FAT32 drives bigger than 32 GB (I have a 40GB drive that way under Win98SE...no problems).

However, IMO, if you are using the drive for video capture, you should partition it anyway.

I have 60GB drive that I use for capture, and I split it into 3 x 20GB partitions. It is amazing how much faster the first partition is compared to the others. So, I use first 20 for capture, second 20 for edit and third 20 for archiving (at least leaving things lying around while I decide what to do with them). This is the case with an IBM drive anyway, perhaps the MAXTOR has a more consistant performace across the drive (I don't know).