Missing Hard Disc space - HELP!

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Just built a new unit...turned on today....all seems ok except, after
formatting the new hard drive - a Western Digital 320GB, its appeared as
only 127GB!
Any ideas how this could have happened and anything I can do to get the
full size back?
 
Just built a new unit...turned on today....all seems ok except, after
formatting the new hard drive - a Western Digital 320GB, its appeared as
only 127GB!
Any ideas how this could have happened and anything I can do to get the
full size back?
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What OS are you using? Windows XP SP1 had limitations on drive
partitions. If that's what you have, then one way to get around it is
to make multiple partitions of 127GB or less.
 
Either or both of the following happened: Your motherboard's BIOS has a
builtin limit of 137 GB of harddrive size if it's an older BIOS. Also,
Windows XP without SP1 installed cannot recognize more than 137 GB of
harddrive size.
 
KC said:
What OS are you using? Windows XP SP1 had limitations on drive
partitions. If that's what you have, then one way to get around it is
to make multiple partitions of 127GB or less.
Click to expand...

What are the BIOS limitation levels? If the BIOS can't handle it, I
doubt XP can either.


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KC Computers said:
What OS are you using? Windows XP SP1 had limitations on drive
partitions. If that's what you have, then one way to get around it is
to make multiple partitions of 127GB or less.
Click to expand...
 
download and install sp2???

Also, make sure the BIOS is identifying the drive at its full capacity.

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spammage trappage: remove the underscores to reply

I'm going to die rather sooner than I'd like. I tried to protect my
neighbours from crime, and became the victim of it. Complications in
hospital following this resulted in a serious illness. I now need a bone
marrow transplant. Many people around the world are waiting for a marrow
transplant, too. Please volunteer to be a marrow donor:
http://www.abmdr.org.au/
http://www.marrow.org/
 
Just built a new unit...turned on today....all seems ok except, after
formatting the new hard drive - a Western Digital 320GB, its appeared as
only 127GB!
Any ideas how this could have happened and anything I can do to get the
full size back?
Click to expand...
www.48bitlba.com will tell you all you need to know.
 
update to XP sp2 from windows update site, not legit? now you know why MS
does things the way it do.
 
Conor said:
www.48bitlba.com will tell you all you need to know.
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QOTD:
"The next capacity barrier will come sooner than that at 2.2 terabytes
(2,200 gigabytes) because many of today's operating systems are based on
32-bit addressing. With hard disk capacities growing at the current rate
it is estimated that hard drives at this limit could be available as
early as 2004."
 
DaveW said:
Either or both of the following happened: Your motherboard's BIOS has a
builtin limit of 137 GB of harddrive size if it's an older BIOS. Also,
Windows XP without SP1 installed cannot recognize more than 137 GB of
harddrive size.
Click to expand...
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Thanks for all the help...finally sorted...

....for info as per...:-

Downloaded XP SP2

Accessed Disk Management in Windows XP..... Right-click on My Computer,
left-click on Manage,
and then left-click on Disk Management....click unallocated space, and then
New Partition Wizard...
and on to formatting...so now have a couple of large (ok...too large really
but what the heck) partitions. :-)
Thanks again.
 
A troll who isn't technically inclined enough to know there are
easy ways around Microsoft's product activation and Windows update
checks.
 
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