Specifically: I have a Maxtor (Ultra ATA/133) 160 GB drive, running externally via an external power supply and casing. When installed for the first time, I had to limit the initial size to 137 GB, because of ATA restrictions. Now I am trying to reformat the drive to gain the extra 13 GB (binary vs. decimal), but Windows XP isn't showing me the unpartitioned space in Disk Manager. Also, Maxtor was bought by Seagate, and they didn't save any of Maxtor's help files.
I believe that the drive came with an installation disk to fix this, but it's been 6 years, and I can't find the disk.
Any ideas?
2007-08-03 20:09:54 · 2 answers · asked by snoflake404 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
no ideas about the ata limitation. All I have to say is you better back up the media/setupfiles/documents you need/want.
delete and Reformat the partiion in windows setup to max capacity..
2007-08-03 20:14:01 · answer #1 · answered by Mercury 2010 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Also remember that drive listings are based on 1Gb = 1 Billion bytes, while the PC sees 1Gb as 1.024 Billion bytes.
2007-08-07 18:42:06 · answer #2 · answered by Dave 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋