Summary: Be careful!! The problem may be that you have hit the old ATA protocol limit. This limits the maximum hard drive size to 137 GB. To get over this limi...
Summary: I have a ?? on a hard drive not being recognized to its full size.. in other words.. I have a friend who has a 250 gig HD and when installing it in th...
Summary: I just recently bought a Shuttle XPC SN45G, and a WD 250 GB hard drive, Audigy 2 Plat. eX, radeon AIW 9700 pro, DVD/CDRW COMBO. When I open up the har...
Summary: Your hard drive may be FAT file system. In My Computer, Right click the drive, then Properties, then it will show the File System. Western Digital Ser...
Summary: Hi Dave, Just left click on the "my computer" icon on the desktop or left click "my computer" in the start menu. That will open up another window. ...
Summary: Thank you all for your help. It is much appreciated. I will try to address your comments as best I can, but I will likely use the wrong terms in place...
Summary: I found something very peculiar with Win XP. About 4 months ago, I did two new Win XP installs, One on a Dell P4-1.7 and one on a Compacq P4-1.0. Bo...
Summary: My preferred P2P download browser is Ares. It dosen't have any apparent spyware problems and downloads reasonably well for my needs. Recently I checke...
Summary: Hi Jeremy, Are you using full version disk ? If so ,when booting from cdrom , during the XP install after setup examins your computer it should displa...
Summary: Can anyone explain why Windows reports the wrong size for my hard drive's. I have 2 120gig hard drive's fitted and when i look at the hard drive prope...
Summary: Hi all, I noticed this little problem the other day, and can't quite figure it out. When I check the size of my hard drive by selecting all the files ...
Summary: Ok I have a Dell XPS generation 2 wich is about 5 yeaRS old one of the hard drives went bad on the RAID 1 system while the other one is still running....
Summary: Iam running WinXp, I just changed my hard drive to a Maxtor 80GB. The problem is when WinXP has formated the drive, the disk space stated is 74.66 GB....
Summary: I added a 20.4GB Seagate hard drive to my system. When I do fdisk it sets the drive up as a 20 GB drive. When I boot into win XP it shows up as an 8 G...
Summary: And a plain text explantion: A common marketing ploy by hard drive manufacturers is to calculate the size of a hard disk by using the decimal 10 syste...
Summary: I loaded win 98 but said no to large disk support then I loaded xp and have now realised that my hard drive is only showing as 2gb how can I rectify m...
Summary: When I use my WD 1TB external hard drive with my computer (Connected through eSATA, USB or Firewire) the boot up times are much slower. It stays on th...
Summary: I have a Dell Dimension E520. When I tried to reformat the hard drive, it gave me a error message in blue screen indicating "A problem has been detect...
Summary: i recently built a new system and am trying to copy files from an old hard drive to my new one (just pictures and music etc.) my problem is the hard d...
Summary: Had problems with old hard drive - clicking intermittently. Replaced hard drive and have tried to load XP Pro. The hard drive is identical (250 SATA...
Summary: Sounds as if you are running into the 32 GB limitation. Post 126551 in this forum talks about it. That said, you could always partition your hard dri...
Summary: Device manager recognizes my 2nd hard drive as working fine, but my computer doesn't see it. My Computer only shows one hard drive and an optical dri...
Summary: I was wondering if there existed a software program that would show me hard drive LED activity in the system tray. The LED on my computer seems to hav...
Summary: Im getting a real strange problem, I had 2 gigs of hard drive space free, i deleted 5 gigs of files and now STILL only have 2 gigs HD space free, ive ...
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