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Subject: HD size incorrect

Original Message

Name: 00000zeronone
Date: August 29, 2006 at 06:19:14 Pacific
Subject: HD size incorrect
OS: me/xp
CPU/Ram: 3.0
Model/Manufacturer: ctx

Comment:

This damn drive's been pissing me off since day one. It's been a month since I got the drive. It's new (160GB WesternDigital usb), and works fine, but I've been running into problems related to partitioning and window o/s. I been learnign a lot! Now I'm doing a repartition and fdisk is saying my total drive space is 21555MB. Anybody know what where the other space went to? Delpart doesn't help. I tried contacting wd, nothing yet.

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Response Number 1

Name: Petit Jean
Date: August 29, 2006 at 07:10:35 Pacific
Subject: HD size incorrect

Reply: (edit)

If the hard drive is SATA 2,move the jumper to SATA 1 with a setting of 1.5 to eliminate data corruption of all kinds.Some motherboards don't support SATA 2 advertised rating.Good luck.

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Response Number 2

Name: Sabertooth
Date: August 29, 2006 at 07:18:02 Pacific
Subject: HD size incorrect

Reply: (edit)

Are you needing to partition it as a whole?
Have you tried anything from the XP's disk management console?
Are you running XP SP2?

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Response Number 3

Name: dosser
Date: August 29, 2006 at 08:13:05 Pacific
Subject: HD size incorrect

Reply: (edit)

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Response Number 4

Name: 00000zeronone
Date: August 29, 2006 at 16:04:53 Pacific
Subject: HD size incorrect

Reply: (edit)

It's usb, not sata (read above). Maybe it had some configuration files on it, because winme read all 160GB. I was able to create 4 fat32 drives using all the space, so I don't know why I can't now. I tried installing xp, but quickly deleted it by doing a repartiton of the usb drive. I did do a sys c:, and deleted some boot/config files winxp might have changed in c:. So no xp, only winme. thanks so far.

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Response Number 5

Name: street1
Date: August 31, 2006 at 17:56:45 Pacific
Subject: HD size incorrect

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It's been a month since you got the damned drive?
Have you really been pissed off 30 days.
IF you have Windows XP with Service Pack2
and so on that should help with larger hard drive recognition.
According to your post you have a douche mix
on Operating Systems.

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Response Number 6

Name: 00000zeronone
Date: September 1, 2006 at 05:07:47 Pacific
Subject: HD size incorrect

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I use your douche on your mom last night.
If you cant read dont respond.

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Response Number 7

Name: street1
Date: September 2, 2006 at 15:16:30 Pacific
Subject: HD size incorrect

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Your introduction to the post, was without
a doubt,the wittiest thing read here in years.
Quote:"This damn drive's been pissing me off since day one. It's been a month since I got the drive."
What a fine way to ask for help.
Out of the mouths of babes.......
You live,you learn,then you die with the knowledge.

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