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| Thread ID: 79875 | 2007-06-04 05:52:00 | 320gb hard drive doesn't show full size | hamstar (4) | Press F1 |
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| 555986 | 2007-06-04 05:52:00 | Hey guys, Got my brother a 320gb drive (IDE) however when you try to access it in windows it shows up as only 128GB. When in Windows XP setup, it shows up as 131GB. I'm really F**Kn confused :yuck: because it shows up fine in Partition magic, and I MANUALLY partitioned it in linux fdisk. I created two 10 gigs and a ~285gb one. I also tried one 20gb and then 136gb and then the rest in another partiton. It still only shows up in 2000 sp4 as 128gb and when you go into the windows xp setup, it only shows it as ~131gb. Been googling a bit and it seems you need to have highest SP in xp and 2k which there is on 2000. The other thing I heard was that it was a BIOS problem not supporting drives larger than 137.4gb due to 32bit addressing, which it can't be in this case because linux and parttition magic see it fine. ??? So Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is going on?! :help: |
hamstar (4) | ||
| 555987 | 2007-06-04 06:13:00 | Yep, update to the latest service pack. | pctek (84) | ||
| 555988 | 2007-06-04 06:14:00 | Only really old BIOSes will not see it... and yes, XP SP0 does not pick up more than the 128GB or 131GB unformatted get SP2 and it will be there (will need to be slipstreamed to see more than 131GB during XP setup) but the whole disk capacity will still be available, just no more than 128GB in a single partition | The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
| 555989 | 2007-06-04 06:16:00 | As u said it needs SP1 or 2, if u have XP. And if SP1 or 2 wasnt slipstreamed, when u installed XP. Or its formatted in FAT32 Convert it to NTFS. Or its an old system, that doesnt support big hdd's without a BIOS update. What does the BIOS show the hdd as? 127 or 320 GB? So, is SP1 or 2 installed now? |
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