320GB Maxtor ATA HDD showing 37.15GB???

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by Kasten, May 14, 2009.

  1. Kasten

    Kasten Private E-2

    I am connecting the internal HDD via USB cable.

    I've used many internal HDD's in the past using this USB cable and have never encountered this problem before.

    I just took the HDD out of the box and linked it to my notebook Presario V2000.
    The default HDD inside the notebook is 40GB.

    I'm running Windows 7 Evaluation cop7. Build 7100

    Please help, thanks!
     
    Kasten, May 14, 2009
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  2. collinsl

    collinsl MajorGeek

    Hello,

    Internal hard drives are either connected via SATA or IDE. Do you have the hard drive in an external hard drive converter?
     
    collinsl, May 14, 2009
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  3. Kasten

    Kasten Private E-2

    Exactly, it's a USB to IDE.

    Any ideas of what it could be?

    This has never happened before.
     
    Kasten, May 14, 2009
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  4. Kasten

    Kasten Private E-2

    Anyone out there with experience with an issue like this?
     
    Kasten, May 14, 2009
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  5. satrow

    satrow Major Geek Extraordinaire

    Hi Kasten,

    Connect the external hdd to a different PC - same result?

    What format is it, FAT32 or NTFS?
     
    satrow, May 14, 2009
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  6. Kasten

    Kasten Private E-2

    Gosh sorry for the bother. I plugged it in this morning and now its working fine... its NTFS BTW... thanks!
     
    Kasten, May 14, 2009
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