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20 GB Hard Drive only has 8 GB?
Name: Adam Date: February 7, 2002 at 21:07:56 Pacific
Comment:
Hi,
I've got a Western Digital 20GB hard drive and I have it set to my master drive. I've formatted it and it's only in one partition. I've done a fresh install of windows and when I check the C: drive properties in my computer it only says it's capacity is 8GB?? How is this possible?
Name: Dave Date: February 7, 2002 at 21:52:27 Pacific
Reply:
Could be a limitation of your BIOS. Does the BIOS see the entire size of the hard drive? What happens if you run fdisk and then create a second partition to try and use the remaining space?
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Response Number 2
Name: Sue Date: February 8, 2002 at 23:10:41 Pacific
Reply:
I have the same thing and my bios is not upgradable, so Western digital has a disc that came with the hard drive that will overlay software to enable large hard drive capabilities. Works Great.. Sue, go to their web site for the updated disk
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Response Number 3
Name: Corey Date: February 16, 2002 at 05:02:26 Pacific
Reply:
Enter your BIOS settings when the computer first starts up, then search around until you find hard drive parameters - should be in the first or second section - then set the drive mode to lba or maybe large, i forget...anyway the mode it's in right now only allows 8.3 gigs or so...if you want me to i'll check in further detail, just email me
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