Thank you for being a valued part of the CNET community. As of December 1, 2020, the forums are in read-only format. In early 2021, CNET Forums will no longer be available. We are grateful for the participation and advice you have provided to one another over the years.

Thanks,

CNET Support

General discussion

Windows only recognizes 128gb of my 300gb hard drive.

Aug 4, 2006 8:11PM PDT

Today August 04 I bought a Maxtor Ultra16 300gb hard drive (Maxtor 6L300R0). For some reason windows only recognizes the hard drive as a total capacity of 128gb.

I followed all the instructions in the intallation manual followed by the installation of Maxblast 4 (which was provided with the hard drive). After that i noticed the problem and read all the help files in the maxtor website concerning my problem. Followed those instructions aswell (https://maxtor.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/maxtor.cfg/php/enduser/olh_adp.php?p_faqid=960&p_sid=e8QAFiei&p_lva=#)
and still the problem remains.

Im very upset to find that the installation was not a "Quick, easy installation" as stated in the box of the product!

The specs for my computer are the following:
Hp Pavilion zd7000 (LAPTOP)
Windows XP Home Edition SP2
Pentium 4 3.0ghz
1gb ram
Im using the hard drive with an enclosure as an external hard drive.
I have tried everything in the maxtor.com help files (support section) what should i do next?!

I was doing some reading online and realize that many people have had the same problem but for the most part it was because of their OS or something similiar. I have win xp sp2 si its defenitely not that... any ideas?

hope someone out there has an idea.

Alex

Discussion is locked

- Collapse -
initialize the HD
Aug 5, 2006 3:32AM PDT

Did you partition and format the HD in DISK MANAGEMENT

- Collapse -
already did
Aug 5, 2006 6:24AM PDT

What i did was to give it format and partition it with the maxblast4 that was provided by maxtor then i tried with the windows disk management and still same problem.

- Collapse -
already did
Aug 5, 2006 7:17AM PDT

What i did was to give it format and partition it with the maxblast4 that was provided by maxtor then i tried with the windows disk management and still same problem.

- Collapse -
more info
Aug 5, 2006 9:42AM PDT
- Collapse -
2 ideas.
Aug 6, 2006 9:08AM PDT

Not much was told about the enclosure. Some had 127GB limits. You can check http://www.48bitlba.com and triple check that enablelargelba registry entry but at first glance it's likely to be an enclosure limitation.

Bob

- Collapse -
will do
Aug 6, 2006 10:24AM PDT

hm... will do.. ill let you knwo how it goes