Re: [Can't get full capacity of my disk!]

[snip] The Maxtor software split the new drive into 4 partitions labeled as "D", "E", "F", "G", [snip] Would not recommend using Maxtor software. I had used 'EZ-Drive' by Western Digital on a new WD drive and these softwares uses some propietary IDE schemes. You are better off with fdisk or

Re: Can't get full capacity of my disk!

[ cfdisk reports a 6+ gig drive as 2 gigs ] Two things to check 1) press to get a terminal and type "dmesg" to see all the kernel bootup messages. Scroll up using and look for where the kernel detects hdc to verify it works correct. 2) try fdisk from that terminal ("fdisk /dev/hdc" should work

Can't get full capacity of my disk!

Hi, I just buy a new hard drive (Maxtor 6.4G). I want to dedicate this new Maxtor drive to linux. So I leave my old hard drive as a "master" on the first IDE bus (the old drive has DOS/win95), and set my new Maxtor drive as a "master" also on the second IDE bus. OK, here is the proble