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160 Gb
I just boughta 160GB seagate hard drive. I installed it and when I check the drive space i'm getting 127GB I know i'm not going to get the whole 160GB but the differen that i'm getting seems kind of large. Does anyone know the reason why. The OS I installed is windows 2000 PRO.
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08-21-2004, 10:35 AM
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I think it may have to do with your default cluster size.
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08-21-2004, 11:12 AM
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Are you using NTFS?
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08-21-2004, 05:09 PM
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160GB should read at about 157GB.
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08-21-2004, 07:39 PM
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could read 152GB (my 160GB drive does).
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08-21-2004, 07:40 PM
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I formatted it as NTFS.
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08-21-2004, 08:39 PM
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if you are using it as your primary windows partition, it won't go beyond about 130 gigs. I don't think you can change that.
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08-21-2004, 09:15 PM
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Revil...why is that...I kind of feel cheated now.
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08-21-2004, 09:42 PM
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You might have an older system that can't handle drives larger than a specific size (it's either 127GB or 137GB -- can't remember which). It's part of the older ATA standard -- although there might be a BIOS update for your motherboard that can rectify this issue.
I'm not sure what the maximum primary partition size is though. |
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08-21-2004, 09:47 PM
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in living colour
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like he said. winXP SP1 i think can recognize drives larger than 137GB. so goes with newer mobo chipsets. older BIOSes may need an update to recognize it at BIOS level. thats one reason why some drives larger than 120GB are shipped with an ATA card to help it get recognized beyond 137GB. |
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08-21-2004, 10:49 PM
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If you can't upgrade the bios to accept the full capacity you could make another partition on the hd to use the full capacity.
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 I think Win 2000 was capable of recognizing large hard drives, but if all else fails, I'd say that you should partition off a system drive, and then a storage drive.
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08-22-2004, 04:15 PM
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That's what I thought when I installed my 160 GB HD. However, if your BIOS doesn't support large drives, regardless of how you partition it, it won't see anything greater than 127 (137?)GB. Your only aternative is to upgrade yopur BIOS or use a card.
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