I have a friend who I have tried to help over the phone to solve a problem with the new Maxtor 10 gig 5400rpm ATA 100 hard drive is has purchased. When we go to FDISK, all we see is a non-DOS partition with a size of 1500 megabytes, or about 1.5 gigs. I had him delete the non-DOS partition and then displaying the partition information showed a primary partition of 1.5 gigs. So, I had him delete this partition, reboot to an A prompt and format C. then, we rebooted, went to FDISK, chose “Y” to enable LBA, and started with “Creating a Partition”. We chose to create a Primary partition but STILL show only 1.5 gigs to use as available free space.

What are we missing here? Why do we not have 10 gigs available? I had previously installed Partition Magic 7.0 for him but accessing it also shows only one partition, FAT32, at about 1.5 gigs.

Any help would be appreciated.