Incorrect Hard Drive capacity

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guy1749

Hello:
My hard drives are not showing the correct capacity?
only showing 32GB instead of 80. I have changed the
jumper settings no effect? I also assured the bios were
up to date? However I am having some difficulty
partitioning the drivies with Partition magic or my boot
disk?

Help

Guy
 
Hi Guy,

If you have formated the drive using FAT than 32GB is the limit and is why
the drive is only formated to 32.

To use the entire drive you must partation to 32 or less than use FAT format
or make bigger partitions and use NTFS to format.

Richard
 
Two possibilities: (1) Your BIOS only supports 32 Gig.
That was a popular limit a few years ago. Check with the
pC maker or motherboard maker for whether there is such a
limit on your PC. If yes, and if no BIOS update, then get
an ATA/100 PCI adapter card and connect the hard drive to
it. (2) You only chose (by accident) to format 32 Gig of
the 80 Gig. Go into the XP disk management tool and look
at the disk. if it show a 32 Gig partition plus about 48
Gig or raw or unpartitioned space, bingo, you have the
answer. However, if the disk management tool says only 32
Gig, then that is all that is more likely the BIOS issue I
mentioned above.

By the way, FAT32 partitions can be much larger than 32
Gig, and XP will use them correctly. However, XP refuses
to make them for you. But, third-patry programs can make
them (e.g., Partition Magic).
 
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