XP Splits my 250GB USB Hard Drive

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Shadowwing

Greetings all,

I heed your help! I recently purchase a USB2.0 250GB hard drive.
I plugged it into my compter at work:

Pentium 4 - 2.8 Ghz
Windows XP Pro - SP2
(Built-in USB 2.0)

It works fine, however, when i looked at "My Computer" it had split
the drive into to separate drives with 183GB on drive E, and the rest
on Drive F. I really didnt have a problem with this. So i let it go.

However, when i hooked the drive into my home computer:

Pentium 3 - 1.8 Ghz
Windows XP Pro - SP2
(After market USB 2.0)

It only showed 191 Ghz in My Computer, with NO second drive.

I took the Hard Drive back to work the next day, and now Drive E
shows 191 Ghz, and the remainder on Drive F.

My question is, why doesnt the remainder of the hard drive show up
as a second drive on the home computer? And is there anyway to
change that? do you think it could have something to do with the after
market USB2.0 port?

PLEASE HELP!

Thank you,
Patrick

(e-mail address removed)
 
Shadowwing said:
Greetings all,

I heed your help! I recently purchase a USB2.0 250GB hard drive.
I plugged it into my compter at work:

Pentium 4 - 2.8 Ghz
Windows XP Pro - SP2
(Built-in USB 2.0)

It works fine, however, when i looked at "My Computer" it had split
the drive into to separate drives with 183GB on drive E, and the rest
on Drive F. I really didnt have a problem with this. So i let it go.

However, when i hooked the drive into my home computer:

Pentium 3 - 1.8 Ghz
Windows XP Pro - SP2
(After market USB 2.0)

It only showed 191 Ghz in My Computer, with NO second drive.

I took the Hard Drive back to work the next day, and now Drive E
shows 191 Ghz, and the remainder on Drive F.

My question is, why doesnt the remainder of the hard drive show up
as a second drive on the home computer? And is there anyway to
change that? do you think it could have something to do with the after
market USB2.0 port?

PLEASE HELP!

Thank you,
Patrick

(e-mail address removed)
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Patrick:
Do this...
After connecting your USB 250 GB external hard drive to your computer...
Go into XP's Disk Management utility...
Start > right-click My Computer > Manage > Computer Management > Disk
Management
Look at the graphic for information for your 250 GB HD and tell us what it
says.
Anna
 
It shows the following information:

Disk 1:
Basic
233.75GB
Online

E:
191.99 GB FAT32
Healthy

F:
41.76 GB FAT32
Healthy

This is on the compter at work, ill have to check what the
computer shows at home later tonight.

I hope this helps.

Patrick
 
Shadowwing said:
It shows the following information:

Disk 1:
Basic
233.75GB
Online

E:
191.99 GB FAT32
Healthy

F:
41.76 GB FAT32
Healthy

This is on the compter at work, ill have to check what the
computer shows at home later tonight.

I hope this helps.

Patrick
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Patrick:
Well, no problem here. Your 250 GB drive (actually about 234 GB based on the
way the system computes HD capacity; it differs from the HD manufacturer's
advertised capacity) indicates two partitions totaling that capacity. Should
show the same on your home computer
Anna
 
Thank you for the help.

I plugged the drive into the computer at home, and both drives show up now.
I dont know what happened, but im not going to look a gift horse in the
mouth!

thanks again,
Patrick
 
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