Hi all, Just got a strange thing happening... This is the scenario... Formatted an IDE Hard Drive with NTFS File sytem on one of my machines (60GB HD). * Partitioned 20Gb / 40Gb also (both partitions formatted). At this stage no chipset drivers have been installed. I then inserted this into another system I then had a blue screen failing to load. So, I then loaded the Win XP Repair utility - no joy with chkdsk /r or /p. .. But anyway, this is the strange part.. Now Windows XP will only see 30Gb??!! 8mb unpartitioned space. Even in disk management also. Strange?... Thinking maybe one or two of the platters damaged?... Anyone any ideas? Cheers, Steve

It sounds like the Bios on one of the machines has a 32gb limit. If so, it will need either a bios upgrade or an overlay program downloaded from the hard drive manufacturer's web site.

I agree with pat and think it has to be the computer that can't detect it properly. Is the drive detected in bios ??? If possible use the bios update because the overlay software can cause some problems!

Hi, thanks for the feedback. The Disk is detected in BIOS - Booted up fine. I went into disk management in xp and 30Gig was still detected. The mobo is new - Epox something, new everything, but the hard disk is not. I formatted the hd in another system and 60g was detected, and I formatted the two partitions - 20Gig and 40Gig - which is the strange thing as there is now only a 30gig partition. Any more ideas, I am not so convinced it being a BIOS problem...