i bought a Maxtor 160GB Hard Drive

[bigdawgjts2663]

Go into your BIOS, and go to find where you detect the hardrive, redetect it and you will be able to partition the rest. I had the same problem with my Seagate 200 Gig, it was only showing 130 gig, so that should work!

 

[bigdawgjts2663]

Do what I said above if the jumper doesn't work, because if that isn't the problem this is, and if this ends up not working return the HD, get a new one, but if you have windows XP Pro, it has a partioner built in, just right click on my comp and go to "manage", then a screen will pop up, clcik on storage, then disk managment, and you can click on partitions, repartition and even format, convert to Fat32, and so on.

 

[rooster]

thanks but it is windows xp home edition hey do they have a partitioner on windows 2000

 

[rooster]

do you guys know of any free partition software

 

[bla!!]

Take a look on this page. There are several. (I've never use any of em since I'm running 2kPro which has the disk manager).

http://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/partitioneditors.shtml

 

[rooster]

i found out how to partition the hard drive on home edition but it says it only has 34GB so it will partition some that i choose then all that is left is like 222MB that i can partition

 

[rooster]

i found a way to partition in home edition but it only lets me do it with what i have 34GB and nothing seems to be reading that i really have 160GB could there be a problem in the manufacture and they ended up with 34GB

 

[bla!!]

1 quick question. Did you ever check and see if there was a jumper on the back of the drive limiting the capacity?

This is what the jumper pins look like.

 

[rooster]

yea and took it out

 

[bla!!]

Ok, then go into your BIOS and re-detect the drive under the IDE options. It should find the remaining space then.