I had a new system built using my existing cd burner and 40 gig Maxtor drive. The shop reformatted the hard drive and installed Win 2k. After I got it home, I found out the drive is formatted as only 5 gigs! There are no other partitions. The bios autodetects it as 5 gigs and Maxblast says it's only 5 gigs. I tried a Promise ata-100 controller and it also detected the drive as 5 gigs. All the jumper settings on the drive appear to be correct. I've got a MSI motherboard with an Athlon 1700+ cpu. When I took the system back to the shop, they were out of business so there's no help there. Anybody got any ideas? Thanks, Tony

damn. I hope that they didnīt scam you. If they really did put a 40gb drive in there, maybe they just did a crappy partition job. WINNT has trouble reading huge hard drives but Win2k should have no prob. Try deleting the partition and creating a new one. Or perhaps leaving the first partition just for the OS and creating a second partition for your progs and data. This is assuming that the other 35 mb actually exists.... are you sure there isnīt a second partition out there? Maybe they gave it a weird letter? good luck

Have you physically checked if it is the same drive. I think they swapped your drive for a cheap one.

Open your case (with the power to the computer off) and pull the hard drive out. IF MaxBlast works you know at least that it's still a maxtor! but it will say the hard drive capacity on the drive = if not, just write down the model number and check the Maxtor website to see the drive's size. Call the BBB on this company as well if they scammed you.

Thanks, guys, Harold and Mack were right. I opened the case, took out the drive and checked the manufacturer's label. I did the math (cylinders * heads * sectors * 512) and got 5.1 gigs. I also checked the model number with the Maxtor web site. Instead of a 40 gig 7200 rpm drive it's a 5 gig 5400 rpm drive. I got ripped off real good. Anyway, maybe someone else here can learn from my mistake. Thanks again, Tony