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Wrong size Hard Drive
Name: Matt-man Date: February 14, 2005 at 03:23:51 Pacific OS: WIN XP CPU/Ram: AMD 64 3000
Comment:
I have recently added a second hard drive to my system i bought a western Digital 200gb hard drive however when you go to properties it shows as only 127gb.
Name: Mechanix2Go Date: February 14, 2005 at 03:28:40 Pacific
Reply:
What does the BIOS say about it?
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Response Number 2
Name: Matt-man Date: February 14, 2005 at 03:57:07 Pacific
Reply:
It shows as WD200gb on master IDE 1, so all appears to be correct I am running XP with SP2 i have heard that some changes have to be made somewhere in order fo it to register larger sized HD's
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Response Number 3
Name: XpUser Date: February 14, 2005 at 04:12:13 Pacific
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Look here to read What if I have a hard drive which is greater than 137 GB?
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Response Number 4
Name: OtheHill Date: February 14, 2005 at 08:50:19 Pacific
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You need to have SP1 or greater installed in order to access the full capacity of this drive. You could partition the drive into something smaller than 137GB. Should you elect to do this, DON'T use the tools available in WinXP. Use the version of fdisk designed for disks larger than 64GB.
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Response Number 5
Name: Matt-man Date: February 15, 2005 at 10:32:57 Pacific
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I have updated the necessary files to enable the hard drive to show the higher amount, in order for this to take effect do i have to reformat it? if so whats the best way to do this?
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Response Number 6
Name: OtheHill Date: February 15, 2005 at 11:54:37 Pacific
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If this IS a second HD in the system simply Use the tools in (storage) disk management to remove the partition and create a new one, then format. My computer> manage> storage>
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