Formatting a 120 gig hdd

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Mike Cee

I am building my first box. I have a 120 gig hdd.When
formatting the hdd ,NTSF, I was given the option to format
a 32 gig hdd. My bios lists the hdd as 120 gig. How do I
get xp pro to format a 120 hdd? Every thing else works
well. Thank you your help
Mike
 
Hi Randy
My motherboard is an Asus a7v333 512 mb ram
120 gig deskstar hdd. I had to use the (set of 6 floppy
disk) boot disk to get the xp cd to work. When formatting
I was asked what size partition to create, the default size
was 32 gig (listed in bytes) I wasn't paying attention and
accepted this vaule, thinking xp would create one partition
the size of the entire disk.
Thanks for your help
Mike
 
I am not sure if you have receivced your answer. But put
a 160 gb in yesterday. It is a Maxtor and it came with
Maxblaster 3. I was very impressed with it, because not
only did it format the drive to the mas space it
transferred my files from my boot drive as well. I did
take about a couple of hours for the entire process. Yet
I must admit to take almost 60 gb of info and 2 other
partitions in 2 two hours is a far trade. Try going to
maxtor.com and download maxblaster3. You may have to use
a bois update (I doubt this option) or get a hardware
solution. However, there should be a problem if any at
the 137 gb threshold not the 120 gb. Get back with me to
let me know the outcome.
 
One only check. Make sure you format the drive in ntfs.
Fat32 will limit you to the 32 gb range at times. Beware
some on your programs my not work in the ntfs format, but
you can find other program to replace them and it will be
worth it!
 
drdapperwh said:
One only check. Make sure you format the drive in ntfs.
Fat32 will limit you to the 32 gb range at times. Beware
some on your programs my not work in the ntfs format, but
you can find other program to replace them and it will be
worth it!
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While it may be true not every application ever written will run under
Windows XP, it has _nothing_ to do with the choice of file system.

Mike Cee: Jumper the hard drive as Master, place it on the end of the IDE
cable, and connect the other end to the Primary IDE aka IDE1. There may be a
jumper on the drive limiting you to 32MB. Check the Deskstar documentation.
Set the BIOS to Autodetect IDE/ATAPI devices.
 
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