XP sees 60 GM harddrive as 32 GB??

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I am trying to install a 60 GB IBM Deskstar harddrive. It is HD number 3 in
the system, and installed as a slave via a controller card. I have
reformatted the partition but Windows only recognises it as 32 GB. Can
anyone suggest a suggestion on how to best solve this problem. thanks
 
The largest FAT32 partition Windows recognizes is 32GB. You should format
the disk with NTFS.
 
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I am trying to install a 60 GB IBM Deskstar harddrive. It is HD number 3 in
the system, and installed as a slave via a controller card. I have
reformatted the partition but Windows only recognises it as 32 GB. Can
anyone suggest a suggestion on how to best solve this problem. thanks
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Some HDs have a jumper to limit the visible size to 32GB. RTFM for your HD,
and see where the jumper is.
 
XP recognizes FAT32 partitions larger than 32 MB.

The formatting utility supplied with XP won't create a FAT32 partition
larger than 32 MB. Third-party utilities can, though.

The advice to use NTFS is good. I hope that's the original poster's problem.
 
Hello Bob

Thank you for your reply. I am making progress but still need a bit
of help. Here's what I've done so far:

I've changed the jumpers like you said because I think they were
indeed wrong; when windows saw the drive still as 32 GB, I ran
"ftool_v199.exe" which allows me to state the capasity of the HD.
Windows is still seeing the HD as 32 GB. However, it also reports
that this HD has more than 23 GB of unallocated space. So now the
question is, how can i allocate that 23 GB (thus giving me the full
capasity of this HD)? I've tried a reformat, but I can only format 32
GB. For clarrity, I've attached a screen shot of the drive's
properties.
 
Just said:
Hello Bob

Thank you for your reply. I am making progress but still need a bit
of help. Here's what I've done so far:

I've changed the jumpers like you said because I think they were
indeed wrong; when windows saw the drive still as 32 GB, I ran
"ftool_v199.exe" which allows me to state the capasity of the HD.
Windows is still seeing the HD as 32 GB. However, it also reports
that this HD has more than 23 GB of unallocated space. So now the
question is, how can i allocate that 23 GB (thus giving me the full
capasity of this HD)? I've tried a reformat, but I can only format 32
GB. For clarrity, I've attached a screen shot of the drive's
properties.
Click to expand...
Reformatting will not fix the problem, since that only creates a fresh file
system in an existing partition. You must repartition the HD, then
reformat it.

With XP, the easiest way to do this for an added HD is with the Disk
Management tool:
Start->Settings->ControlPanel->AdminTools->CompManage->Storage->DiskManage.

Depending on the state of that 3rd HD (which should be displayed as
Disk 2),
you may need to get rid of an existing 32GB partition. If Disk 2
shows as
having a 32GB part., right-click on it and then click on
DeleteLogicalDrive.

Now that Disk 2 has no parts, right-click on Disk 2 and then Initialize
it as a
NTFS volume (logical drive) to consume all space on Disk 2. {I think
that Init'ing
Disk 2 will both partition it *and* format it, but I'm not sure; if Init
only part's
it, then you can right-click on that part and then Format it.}

Take my instructions with a grain of salt, since I'm going from memory
-- I'm not
about to try it on this PC. The good news is that you can't do any
serious damage
to a HD that does not contain needed files -- just don't click on the
wrong Disk.
 
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