Western Digital harddisk 80GB

[Michael]

Hi,

I just bought a 80gb harddrive. I installed it as a
slave. When I try to format it, it only formats for 33gb.
Why is that? What can I do to have the full capacity of
80GB.

Mike

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I just bought a 80gb harddrive. I installed it as a
slave. When I try to format it, it only formats for 33gb.
Why is that? What can I do to have the full capacity of
80GB.

Format it with NTFS or a 3rd party software. XP will only format 32GB
natively as FAT32.

 

[Jason Tsang]

If you are trying to format it as a FAT32 partition, then as others have
mentioned, Windows XP won't format FAT32 partitions larger than 32 gigs).

If that is not the case, make sure you have the jumpers on your hard drive
set properly. You may have jumpered it so that the hard drive only reports
a 32 gig drive size (for compatibility with hard drive controllers that
don't support sizes of greater than 32 gigs). Also make sure your hard
drive controller will work with hard drives larger than 32 gigs. You may
need to get the latest bios/drivers for your hard drive controller.

 

[Jerry]

Go to the WD web site and download Data LifeGuard. Use it to make a boot
floppy and it will then setup your hard drive.