How to get my cusl2-c mobo to see the full 40 gigs on my Dri

dmerrick · Post by **dmerrick** » Mon Jul 16, 2001 8:21 pm

I got a asus cusl2-c mobo and it only well see 33.8gb of my 40.gb Maxtor ata100 drive. I got this for Pulsar because alot of people seem to like this board. Has any body ran into this ? Any help would be great.

Post by **garyb** » Mon Jul 16, 2001 10:27 pm

isn't windows what you want to see your drive?is that a formatting problem?so hard to say with so little information..........

subhuman · Post by **subhuman** » Tue Jul 17, 2001 7:22 am

You probably have to use the Maxtor tools that came with the HD, usually a floppy that you use to partition it. Alternatively, FDISK *might* be able to do this, but you'll have to answer "Yes" to FAT32 or "large disk" support. If FDISK doesn't work then you definitely need to use the Maxtor tools disk that came with the drive.

Air_PoLLo · Post by **Air_PoLLo** » Tue Jul 17, 2001 8:49 am

Also try using partition magic 6,

or buy a mac

subhuman · Post by **subhuman** » Tue Jul 17, 2001 9:17 am

Or an Infinite Vortex machine

Neutron · Post by **Neutron** » Tue Jul 17, 2001 12:42 pm

It is because the drive manufacturers say 1 meg = 1,000,000 bytes to make the drives seem bigger when actually it is 1,048,576 (1024x1024) just another example of marketing rodents distorting the truth.