re: Maxtor 40GB H/D giving me 6.97 GB Why?? Wednesday, August 3, 2005 at 2:50 pm Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Jack Gulley (5917 messages posted) Could be because your system BIOS is real old. The older versions of BIOS (system board hardware) do not support larger disk drives. There are several "limits" that have been a problem. Most likely your system BIOS only "supports" disk drives up to 32GB and your system board BIOS is limiting Windows FDISK from seeing the drive size by only giving it access to the MOD 32 size. (40GB MOD 32GB = 8GB) First step is to look up your system board and its BIOS version at the system board or system makers web site and see what size disk drives it supports. Then see if they have a BIOS upgrade to support larger disk drives. Most have upgrades to support 64GB limit, or larger. Another option is to down load or install drivers provided by the disk drive manufacture. Written in response to: Maxtor 40GB H/D giving me 6.97 GB Why?? (Ricky: Wednesday, August 3, 2005 at 1:58 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Maxtor 40GB H/D giving me 6.97 GB Why?? (Ricky: Wed, Aug 3, 2005, 1:58 pm) re: Maxtor 40GB H/D giving me 6.97 GB Why?? (Jack Gulley: Wed, Aug 3, 2005, 2:50 pm) re: Maxtor 40GB H/D giving me 6.97 GB Why?? (Aun: Wed, Aug 3, 2005, 11:32 pm) re: Maxtor 40GB H/D giving me 6.97 GB Why?? (MarkosJal: Thu, Aug 4, 2005, 8:42 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Me Discussion Forum