Motherboard and HDD problem

[marin]

Hello,I just built a sytem with a ECS K7VZA motherboard and a brand new Maxtor 40gig 7200 HDD.The system runs great but the motherboard will only recognize the HDD as a 33gig.I have tried all the settings in standard cmos and auto detect.Should I try to set it up manually?Is it possible there is a bad sector and it will not recognize it past the bad sector?It is a brand new motherboard too.Any help is
appreciated.Thanks

 

[spanky]

does the bios have a limit as to how big a hd it will recognize? if so, flash the bios.

 

[JohnnyPC]

Recheck your partition with fdisk..

 

[marin]

I checked it with fdisk at it shows 33gig.I checked ECS website for a bios upgrade that would fix this,but there is none.
This is a fairly new board so it should support a 40gig drive out of the box shouldn't it?

 

[Toejam31]

Go get the new version of FDISK and try again.

FDISK

If this won't work, you'll have to get a third-party program in order to access the remainder of the disk, (such as Partition Magic), or just wait until a BIOS update is finally released that corrects the problem. You might try calling technical support for the board ... they may be testing a BIOS that is unreleased that would work for you. Anything is possible.

Toejam31