After image restore win98 sees a 20gb hd as a 2gb hd.

[jbar1]

After installing a new MoBo and 1.4 P4 win 98 now sees a 20 gb hd as a 2 gb. Bios Ids the drive as 20 Gb and when the PC left the shop win98 saw a 20gb hd. Customer brought PC in after a week getting Drive full errors. I have no clue as to what happened or how to recover.

[cc_penguin]

When you run fdisk what does it say the partition size is?? Sounds like maybe the drive was repartitioned.

[freddy]

had a maxtor like that a week or two ago ,,,,this was a 10g and if i remember correct was showing in bios as 10g but at startup (screen) 1g ,,,,customer thought his kid had d/loaded a lot of porn!!!!

i lent the guy a spare drive ,,,and no matter how i fdisked and formated ,,,it came back on screen as 1g.

I can only presume that the electronics had gone faulty ,,,,and as such its still sat here running linux on an old p1 .

the drive was only 14 month old ,,and the retailer only gives 12m warrenty on OEM parts ,,,and maxtor UK will only deal with retailers . if u can prove the company has gone bust ,,,,they will deal direct (uk)

[ilovetheusers]

Sounds like it was formatted FAT16 and not FAT32. FAT16 only reads up to 2GB. FDISK the drive FORMAT it FAT32.

[tk421]

is the new motherboard a different chipset? I have seen windows have problems with ide controllers if you swith chipsets underneath it. i tried everything, and the only thing i could do was to do a fresh install.

[Outcoded]

There isn't a cylinder limiter jumper on it or something is there? I have a 2.8gig drive in one of my 486's which has one of these on to cut it down to 2.1gig (saves ****ing about with EZ-BIOS).

[jbar1]

thanks all! Turned out to be a chipset problem with new MoBo. Had to reformat and do fresh install. Came up right.