Hi there.

My PC can handle up to 128 Gig hard drive, as my old drive is 40 gigs - but
the newest drive, Maxtor 80 GB wasn't showing up correctly in FDisk.  A
quick trawl revealed that Microsoft had done a new version of FDISK that
fixed this problem, and I duly downloaded it, and checked that its date
agreed with that listed.

However, this revised FDisk STILL shows the size of the hard drive as
80-64GB, almost as though the FDisk was still the old version, and accepting
this value, and subsequently formatting only creates usable space of this
reduced size.

Before I go mad, am I missing something obvious?

ta

Geoff.