Installed 160 GB harddrive...

[marcello]

I just purchased this harddrive: http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/Seagate-...m/oid/118284/rpem/ccd/productDetail.do

After installing it (this is the first harddrive I've installed) it shows up as only 128 GB capacity. I know that actual capacity isn't as much as the listed capacity, but it seems to be way too small in this case. Anyone know why?

 

[AtaruMoroboshi18]

I'll shoot out in left field and say that it's probably in FAT32 or FAT mode, which only supports upwards of 127 GB capacity HDDs. Convert to NTFS I believe. Not sure though.

 

[marcello]

Nope, I have it formatted in NTFS. I'm reformatting it to see if that helps at all, but I don't think it will. I saw the similar thread that talked about adjusting the BIOS settins, so I'll check on those after it formats.

 

[Nocturnal]

Do you have SP2 installed? If you don't have SP2 installed it won't recognize the other 30+ gigs until you install it.

 

[ShadowBlade]

windows takes 12% for system restore
pro does by default anyway...12% works out to be 19.2GB for you, but its taking 32
formatting takes very little space

 

[Nocturnal]

Originally posted by: ShadowBlade
windows takes 12% for system restore

He'd still get like 148 or some odd number like that. I know because I've installed two 160GB hard drives in computers without SP2 and both were at or around the 130gb mark. After SP2 it went up, you could only find it in local disk management though.

 

[marcello]

Originally posted by: Nocturnal
Do you have SP2 installed? If you don't have SP2 installed it won't recognize the other 30+ gigs until you install it.

I don't have it installed, but I will do that now. After I install SP2, will it automatically recognize the other 30 GB, or do I need to reformat then? Thanks a lot!

 

[imported_whatever]

ATA100 has a limit of 128GB, which sounds like your problem. you need a new hdd controller.

 

[marcello]

Originally posted by: whatever
ATA100 has a limit of 128GB, which sounds like your problem. you need a new hdd controller.

Sorry, I don't know what that all means. I don't know too much about computer hardware.

 

[Nocturnal]

Install SP2. Then, after the installation and reboot is done, right click on My Computer, go to Manage, then go to Storage and then Local Disk Management. You'll see an unpartition space there. You'll have to right click and create a partition of the left over space and then format it.

 

[marcello]

Thanks a lot!

 

[LED]

Originally posted by: marcello

Originally posted by: whatever
ATA100 has a limit of 128GB, which sounds like your problem. you need a new hdd controller.

Sorry, I don't know what that all means. I don't know too much about computer hardware.

It doesn't matter cause that statement is not true :roll:

 

[imported_Kensai]

Actually, the problem is with 24bit addressing which has a 137GB cap, you'll need SP2 which has 48bit addressing and some very large cap.

 

[MobiusPizza]

It's Windows XP's problem
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How to Enable 48-bit Logical Block Addressing Support (LBA) for ATAPI Disk Drives in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013
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Anyway installing SP1a and SP2 would be fine as a solution.
The BIOS of the disk controller needs to support 48-bit Logical Block Addressing as well