Thanks but that did not work either. I downloaded Maxblast4 from Maxtor website and that showed that drive was formatted as FAT16 - although Partition Magic showed NTFS. That does seem to explain why HDD was showing up as only 31.4GB but does not explain how it happened. I have now formatted with this new program and everything is working fine. Anyone who has Maxtor HDD should have look at their site if they encounter HDD problems
