Posted by Bob Cox on October 05, 19101 at 14:08:05:
In Reply to: Re: 40GB drive formats only 33GB! posted by Captain_Crash on September 13, 19101 at 12:52:40:
: : New IBM 40 Gb IDE only appears about 33 GB.
: : Any idea's ?
: Surf to www.linux.org, click on Documentation, download Large-Disk-HOWTO. Heavy reading, but good background, even if you don't use Linux.
: Basically a BIOS limitation, similar to the 528 MB barrier and the 8.4 GB barrier.
: Windows machines can use an add-in PCI IDE controller. Recent linux distributions use other workarounds (boot loaders, setup tricks, etc.)
: You have a jumper to force the drive to appear as 33 GB, but you should be able to find a better solution than wasting the last 7 to 8 GB.
: Back up your system if at all possible before beginning, and I have confidence you'll be fine, even if it takes some hours to fix this.
In general - you have been hit by a bios limitation - you need to flash