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| Thread ID: 46074 | 2004-06-12 22:50:00 | 160gb drive - formatted capacity | Mike (15) | Press F1 |
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| 243914 | 2004-06-12 22:50:00 | I've got a 160gb HDD, but its formatted at 127gb. That's 33gb gone missing. Is 127gb the total formatted capacity? Or have I been struck by the 137gb limitation? I was expecting to lose some space through formatting (my old 40gb I lost about 3gb, and the 20gb I lost about 1.5gb), but 33gb seems a bit excessive. What can I do to get that space back? What kind of capacity would I have gotten if I'd gone for the cheaper 120gb drive? Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 243915 | 2004-06-12 22:52:00 | I'm sure this exact problem has happened before... Have a search, i don't remember the remedy ... (I do know there is a patch for windows, isnt there?) |
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| 243916 | 2004-06-12 22:56:00 | www.seagate.com | godfather (25) | ||
| 243917 | 2004-06-12 22:58:00 | > I'm sure this exact problem has happened before... > > Have a search, i don't remember the remedy ... (I do > know there is a patch for windows, isnt there?) I don't think it's a Windows problem - I understand Win 98 is capable of handling drives bigger than 130gb, and I'm running Win XP. But I'll do the search and see what I find. Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 243918 | 2004-06-12 23:00:00 | Thanks GF - maybe it is an XP problem then ;) :D I'll take a look. Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 243919 | 2004-06-13 04:21:00 | Thanks to Growly and godfather - the issue is now solved, and I have another 20gb available to me :D :-O Thanks you two! :) Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 243920 | 2004-06-13 04:27:00 | What does your Bios report because it may be the problem and have you tried to create another partition | mikebartnz (21) | ||
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