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Old 23 April 2006, 05:16 PM
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I have just brought a brand new maxtor 300 GB hard drive once i have put it on it only says it is 136 GB instead of 300 GB.

Could anyone tell me why?
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Old 23 April 2006, 05:22 PM
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Go to maxtor.com and download maxblast 4, burn the ISO to CD, boot from CD and format to windows SP1 spec - (about 3 seconds), install windows XP without the need to partition or format.

Job done
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Old 23 April 2006, 05:28 PM
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Hi thanx for the help there is only one problem my dvd burner has stopped working is there anything else i can do?
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Old 23 April 2006, 05:40 PM
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mount the image using deamon tools..

http://www.techspot.com/download208.html
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Download the floppy based version

The daemon tools one won't help as its a dos based bootup CD
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Old 23 April 2006, 09:31 PM
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Can someone please give me the link which i need so then i can save it onto a floppy disk i cant find it.
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Link to the file you need.
I think you just run this after installing Windows.
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