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| Thread ID: 56831 | 2005-04-16 07:26:00 | hard drive problem | phylip (1886) | Press F1 |
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| 345632 | 2005-04-16 07:26:00 | my "friend" has a computer with a 240 gig hard drive but only reads as a 120 through windows xp bios recognises as a 240 is this a xp problem or can it be fixed and how ? any help would be appreciated cheers phill |
phylip (1886) | ||
| 345633 | 2005-04-16 07:32:00 | Does you friend have at least SP1 installed? If not, then install that or SP2 and it should be OK for recognising the over 128 gig mark drives. | Jen (38) | ||
| 345634 | 2005-04-16 07:55:00 | Damn didnt read the whole question :o | Dannz (1668) | ||
| 345635 | 2005-04-16 07:58:00 | There is a limit in some BIOSes that dont allow HDD's over 127 GBBut phylip's BIOS does recognise the full size of the drive. Limitation seems to be at the OS end. | Jen (38) | ||
| 345636 | 2005-04-16 08:01:00 | thanks but ive installed service pack 2 and still says 120 gig drive any other suggestions may have to reformat but how do i do that when their pc does not have a floppy drive? help please cheers phill |
phylip (1886) | ||
| 345637 | 2005-04-16 08:05:00 | Is the HDD partittioned for the whole thing Goto Start -> Run and type diskmgmt.msc Check to see if there is any free space that is not partitioned - and what the HDD is reported as there |
Dannz (1668) | ||
| 345638 | 2005-04-16 08:06:00 | Did you install SP2 (or did it already have SP1) before you installed the 240 gig drive? Under Disk Management, does it only show a 127 gig partition with the balance as unallocated? Has this drive been formatted with a single, or several partitions? I take it is a slave drive or is it the primary master drive? | Jen (38) | ||
| 345639 | 2005-04-16 08:08:00 | reads as 127.99 gb ntfs, 104.89gb unallocated | phylip (1886) | ||
| 345640 | 2005-04-16 08:09:00 | You have two choices: Reformat or just use the HDD with 2 partitions |
Dannz (1668) | ||
| 345641 | 2005-04-16 08:10:00 | reads as 127.99 gb ntfs, 104.89gb unallocated Well then - it is 240. You just have one partition of 127gb and the rest hasn't been done. 127.99 +104.89 = 232.88 which is right. |
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