External Hard Drive

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George B

I added an external hard drive that is 120gbs but my windows says it is
31.4gbs. It has been formated and properties says healthy. The enclosure I
got is Zynet,and the HD is Maxtor. I hope someone can give me a clue as to
why this HD appears to be only 31.4 gigs?

Thanks
George
 
My disk manager has two new HDD devices showing so I think it is one the
enclosure and the other the maxtor HDD so I guess they are not working
together here. If This is the case where do I get the information I need to
set them together. I did not have to download any drivers for either
device.

Thanks again
George
 
George B said:
I added an external hard drive that is 120gbs but my windows says it is
31.4gbs. It has been formated and properties says healthy. The enclosure I
got is Zynet,and the HD is Maxtor. I hope someone can give me a clue as to
why this HD appears to be only 31.4 gigs?

Thanks
George
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George,

There may be a jumper on the hard drive to limit the capacity to ~32GB for
legacy support...

Ed Metcalfe.
 
Ed Metcalfe said:
George,

There may be a jumper on the hard drive to limit the capacity to ~32GB for
legacy support...

Ed Metcalfe.
There was a jumper. I took it off but I have run intoanother problem and
that is to do with the 1394 conect network. I don't know how to config this
if it needs it but I am thinking it may be needed but for now The enclosure
is being recognized but not the maxtor HDD. Is there ever an end to the
new problems..
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Thanks George
 
Merlin,

The only way you can format a hard disk larger than 32 GB with the FAT 32
format in Windows XP is with a 3rd party formatting program or formatting
with a Windows 9X system first. XP does not support formatting FAT32 larger
than 32 GB but will run any size FAT 32 drive formatted in a different
system.
 
I found the answer to this problem by accident when I had removed the thing
called a jumper. I replaced it in a different set of posts and put it back
together and my computer found the remainder of the drive space. Thanks to
all of you and I hope this can help others.

George
 
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