Problem installing secondary hard drive

[Torven]

My power supply crapped out on me yesterday, and so long as I had my computer open to replace it, I figured I would stick the 160GB Maxtor drive from my old computer in as a secondary. For some reason, however, windows and MaxBlast only recognize it as a 32GB drive.

The drive is slaved to my DVD drive, because my primary HD uses a SATA connection instead of a ribbon cable.

I have XP SP2, so it is not a LBA issue.

I tried setting the disk size through MaxBlast 4, but it gave me a message: "The set disk size command cannot be executed and is not necessary for this drive since it is attached to an additional controller."

My BIOS does not seem to have an option to manually configure a hard drive.

Any idea on how to make my computer recognize the full disk size?

[Archon]

sounds like it could be clj - capacity limit jumper (or something like that). check the drive jumper setting. i think they need to be removed for slave setting. should say on the label, or you can go the maxtors website and look up jumper settings for yourself.

[Torven]

Thanks for the help, Archon, but it is not the CLJ, and it was not because the CLJ was set during a prior reformat. After four different boot disks, I finally got things going with a tool from Seagate. Apparently the problem was the drive misreporting its own capacity, and their tool was able to force the drive to recognize its max capacity.

[Archon]

hmm

glad you got it working after. i never go near maxtor anymore. they always died on my after a year, got tired of rma'ing them.

[MasterChef]

[quote="Archon";p="93129"]hmm

glad you got it working after. i never go near maxtor anymore. they always died on my after a year, got tired of rma'ing them.[/quote]

maxtor is terrible. I've had two fail on me and have never gone back to them.

[l3eeron]

Seagate baby!

[mr_s]

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Seagate baby!
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