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Harddrive Not Registering Proper Space

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Name: Jeremy A
Date: September 12, 2009 at 21:25:36 Pacific
OS: Windows XP
Subcategory: Hardware Problems
Comment:

My Hard-drive won't read the full 500 GB's. Everytime I format it it reads a different number. The first time it read 336 GB's. The second time I formatted it their was 442 GB's. Now for third time it only reads 127 GB's. My BIOS reads it as 500 GB's.


How can I get it to read the full 500 GB's?



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Name: jam
Date: September 12, 2009 at 23:00:13 Pacific
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This is the WinME fourm but you listed your OS as WinXP?

If you have XP, you need to install a service pack or it could be that your motherboard is too old to support HDD's larger than 120GB.

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Response Number 2
Name: jgalty
Date: September 13, 2009 at 02:10:09 Pacific
Reply:

are you reformatting or making new partitions?

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