My Maxtor 60gb is actually 30gb??

I have bought 2 60gb Maxtor Hard drives from OC UK and have gone to instal them but they both show up as 30 gb each whats up with that any help would be great!!

 

what are your specs as old mobos cannot support more than 30gb.

 

I had the same sort of problem with a maxtor on my old mobo, check your startup, does the Detecting IDE... detect a ....30 or a .....60 drive?

Try the Maxtor website there's an Ez-Bios software there, worked a treat.

 

are you using an old Fdisk by any chance?

 

i think he might be

either that or your mobo is ancient and its needs flashing... but its prolly deffo the first option.

 

That's right. EZ-BIOS (they renamed it as EZDrive now) will make your system detect the whole capacity of the drive.

 

I have it working now I changed the jumpers to cable select and now it registers fine and now I have them in raid 0 my computer flys!!

 

Cannot wait to get bigger Hdds myself, like two 60 or better, onboard raid on this MSI 845 ultra will be great, just to run it

 

sorry about the length, bit of a rant

Ok this is a little late but...

Please bare this is mind. Maxtor are no good for running on Primary Slave.

I once brought a 40gb maxtor bout 2 months after they came out i paid over £190! got it home pluged it in to my old PII 400 system and... it worked... or so I thought. I was only recognising 33GB. Oh dear (must piont out that this was on Primary Slave, my old 8GB was Master). I only noticedthis about 3months after buying it and I was faced with Read/Write BSOD. so I phone up Irelend (the nearest customer support) after 3days of trying I got through to them.
Them:
"Welcome to Maxtor Support Hoe Can I help"
Me:
"Hi good morning, I've got a problem with my HDD"
Them:
"OK sir what is it"

The convo went on me giving them the drive serial and model numbers and so on. I was then told I need to use there Maxtor low level format tool. So i hung up and did just that.
Lost everything of course (knew i would).

Phoned them backand said "Hi it didn't come up with any errors"
Them:
"Well there is nothing wrong with your drive"
Me:
"Of course there bloody is!"

After about 5mins they decided to send me a replacement drive.
The same problem happend with this one, phoned them back and got another, the same problem, at this point I though it mihgt of been my system so I brought my new system the one in my sig.
Oh the same problem with this drive on this system! Ok this board supports somthin like a 1TB can't be the board.

I phoned them again (rember this is an international call).
ME:
"Right this is the last straw I want a full refund of this drive of £194.81"
Them:
"Sorry sir we cannot do that we can only replace the drive"
Me:
"Fine send me another model"
Them:
"We can't do that"

To cut this short I argued my case and surrgessted that there may be a problem with that model of drive. The women tried to get me to accept a 40gb 5400rpm drive but when you paid over £190 for a 7200rpm I refused and said "you can send the next model up to this one". The women tried to argue that the 5400rpm drive would be faster.

So I've now got a 60gb drive that works! Yay! But my advice is buy from a high street not from Insight.

And make sure that you deal with maxtor in the most ignerant way possible.

 

I know IBM drives are really meant for raid but the Maxtor ones run like a dream at the mo we shall see though!!

 

maybe maxtor had run out of stock and had put maxtor stickers on IBM deathstars.

 

Lets hope not as I have heard the are a bit pants but I have been running my IBM hard drive for the last 2 years and there have been no problems at all but I have upgraded for the fast ATA133 maxtors