hard disk size

Fujitsu offers the utility for free here is the link.
http://www.fcpa.fujitsu.com/download/hard-drives/#diskmanager

I would recommend you do a BIOS flash.

Find out the motherboard (MB) model and the BIOS version. Go to the MB manufacturer?s website and see what the latest BIOS does.

Newer version of BIOS always does bug-fixes or enhancements. One of the enhancements could be to accommodate a large hard drive as yours.

Most of the MB manufacturer?s websites explain how to do a BIOS flash.

A word of caution: you have to follow the instructions letter by letter. Otherwise, your MB could be shot. If you are not comfortable doing BIOS flash yourself, have an expert do the job.

I would agree with Answer#2 from wcp, get the M/B model number and search it on the net, get the BIOS uodate and flash the BIOS, with caution!!!. In most cases this will rectify the problem if not as a second option FDISK and say YES to enable large disk support. Thirdly, in your BIOS try and manually set the drive as LARGE instead of LBA.

The BIOS flash option ONLY works if the motherboard manufacture wrote a new version of the BIOS that increases the size of hard drive that the motherboard can recognize.

I generally recommend installing a PCI IDE controller card to take care of this kind of problem.
Not only will the controller card recognize the full size of the hard drive, it very likely will support a faster data transfer rate from the drive.

For $30 (US) it is one of the most cost effective performance upgrades you can make.

There is 1 problem with installing the software fix (drive overlay software).
If you move the drive to another system, the software needs to be installed on the boot drive for you to be able to get the data off of the drive.

Chas

I am not sure of the software detecting the size, but I believe your OS (operating System) is in the used portion, the amount left over is what shows??? Good Luck!