I have fitted a Maxtor 160Gb DiamondMax drive in an external housing with usb 2 connexxion.  It is formatting as 32Mg : it was formatted when I acquired it.. My PC doesn't have a floppy drive so I can't run maxblast from a:/ drive.   How can I get the drive back to factory state so I can get the proper capacity.  Any suggestions greatly appreciated.more info on system used.....win   xyz......USING XP professional on a 4 month old HP pavilion with athlone 64 chipAdministrative Tools--Computer Management--Disk ManagementFROM THE MAXTOR KNOWLEDGE DATABASE.

You're problem is one of these issues....Guaranteed!

I'm guessing number 3 and that you'll need to reformat in NTFS but the CLJ jumper might be on so check for that too. Remove it if it is and reformat in NTFS. Read the info at the link below and i'm sure you'll figure it out.

Good luck and let us know how u make out!

http://maxtor.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/maxtor.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1062&p_created=1023140877&p_sid=WRCXkvIh&p_lva=&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPSZwX3NvcnRfYnk9JnBfZ3JpZHNvcnQ9JnBfcm93X2NudD03ODUmcF9wcm9kcz0mcF9jYXRzPSZwX3B2PSZwX2N2PSZwX3NlYXJjaF90eXBlPWFuc3dlcnMuc2VhcmNoX25sJnBfcGFnZT0x&p_li=&p_topview=1formatted NTFS  still showing 32Gb.  how can I do a low level format (maxblast) with usb connection ?what a POST.....i need a 43 inch screen...

http://www.ameriwebs.net/groupworks/index.htmlYou didn't mention the CLJ jumper. Are you sure it's not
on? That will limit you to 32G.People, learn to use Code: [Select][url=name]text[/url] tags...clj jumper def not on.   I am going to put the drive in another pc as 2nd drive and do low level format using maxtor stuff then set it up from there.  let u know what happensA low level format may distroy this drive.....format//fdisk it.....use a win98 floppy disk.....I'm with Merlin on this one, a LLF may very well DESTROY the drive, try fdisk/mbr to try to restore the drive.