Bios displays wrong hard drive size

I recently put in a new hard drive ( Maxtor ultra ata/133 80gb ) .
My bios is set to auto detect but it displays the wrong HD size; about 65 gb instead of 80. When I formatted and loaded windows none of the partitions display incorrect sizes, but the bios still does....
i put 5 partitions on the drive.

what should i do?
My Bios is Phoenix ver 4.0 release 6.0
thanks

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It may be 80GB as in 80000000000Bytes. The conversion to GB makes it a smaller number than advertised. I don't know if it would create that much of a difference, though. You'd have to ask James.

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Specifically, it is displaying 65535MB.

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Ahh. In that case, I have no idea.

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Oh, but I do.

Are there any BIOS updates for your BIOS? Have you flashed your BIOS lately? Has it ever worked correctly.

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I have a Maxtor Diamond Plus 9 80GB and formatted in NTFS it's about 72GB. It depends on what file system you formatted the HDD with. Are you using FAT32 or NTFS? How did you partition and format this drive?

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fat 32 and windows 98 se. the value is displayed this way before i formatted the drive. besides, the bios displays the total drive size no the post format size.

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The BIOS will show it's actual platter size, but when you format it, it eats a certain percentage, the bigger the drive, the more it needs. It uses this space to store its FAT or NTFS tables. This is normal.

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I brought the drive home from the store.
I put it into my computer.
I booted up and loaded the bios.
The bios displayed the drive as having 65535MB.
Then,
I formatted the drive.
The bios still displays 65535MB.
My other drive is 13GB.
The bios displayed this drive correctly at 13GB and some change before I formatted it.
I formatted that drive.
The bios still displays 13GB and the same change.
So, why does the bios not display the correct size for the one drive when it definatley displays the correct size for the other?
Also, what can I do to fix it, if it needs to be fixed at all?

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The larger the drive, the larger the tables get. With smaller drives you won't notice much different in what the file system takes up. There's nothing to really fix.

Now if you format the HDD and it shows less then 65GB there's a problem with the drive.

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