Summary: Using the large disk support (>64gb) version of FDISK I cannot get my 120gb hdd to recognize as anything other than 31.4gb. Even in my BIOS now it say...
Summary: Hi I have a Western Digital WD2500JD SATA hard disk. When I'm booting from my Windows XP CD, on the partition information I am showing just a single p...
Summary: Alireza Nematollahi said: > Well, look, Windows 98 First Edition, > without those service packs, do NOT support > hard disk larger than maximum allow...
Summary: The second computer may not be seeing the drive the same as the original. That may be why the files and sizes are reported wrong. It'd be best to co...
Summary: I have edited the Win2000 registry to enable 48-bit LBA, but I don't think it is a 137GB limit issue, since surely this would apply only in Win2000 an...
Summary: Hey all. A friend and I are working on building a PC. I think we've been relatively successful, but we've run into one problem. First, I should show y...
Summary: Is there a possibility that any form of drive compression software was installed? That might account for the drive size being reported different. ...
Summary: YUPIIIIIIII! I fixed it!!!!!! boy am I dumb....i finally saw some instructions on how to do it and will happily post here in case anyone else has sim...
Summary: I have a WesternDigital WD800JB and I seem to have a problem with it's disk controler,it only recognises 75 GB in bios,69876Mb in windows Sp2 setup,69...
Summary: I formatted a 4.11GiG Hard Disk - no problems or bad sectors. Fdisk shows up normal. Scandisk - everything OK. When I do a simple "dir" it tells me "N...
Summary: I'm having some problems installing a 320 gigabyte HDD on a new system, with a Windows XP Pro OS. When first installing the OS, I saw that the compute...
Summary: Thanks for the fast replies! I can't get it to scan for bad sectors, it freezes, so I'll chuck 'em. I wasn't aware that the GB limit was a bug, I just...
Summary: http://reviews.ebay.com/HOW-TO-TEST... Check that site out, you may have bought a hacked pen drive. Did you ever have more than a gig or two of data ...
Summary: Hi Just got an hdd from an old p2. Its an excelstor 40gb. However when i looked at the jumper settings on the back it had been capped to 32GB? Dont as...
Summary: When you have a large hdd, first if it exceeds around 2gb you have to use fat32. Then the bios of your pc may have a limitation asto the maximum hdd s...
Summary: It would seem that if you had to forse feed the ram into the socket it may be turned the wrong way, how about try one at a time and swap each socket f...
Summary: I would avoid updating the bios, as this can cause more problems (including total loss) than it is worth. If you go to the hdd makers website you shou...
Summary: If you're adding a large hdd, keep in mind what the largest size you os will recognize, as xp neds sp1, and win 2k needs sp3 or 4 I think. You may ne...
Summary: my PC is compaq deskpro 2000.i want to buy an new HDD 20gb.but my mother board now supports only up to 8gb.is it possible to replace my old HDD with ...
Summary: i just installed win xp sp1 on my pc on a new 250gb hdd. i partitioned 20gb of the drive for windows and left the rest blank but when i go to format ...
Summary: Older MOBOs are limited to the size of HDD that the can see. Some will accommodate larger HDDs with a BIOS upgrade. The MOBO manufacturer has an ove...
Summary: Check what your BIOS sees If the BIOS sees 20 gigs, then you probably have more than one partition on your HDD. If the BIOS doesn't see the 20 gigs, t...
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