Ugh, I have a 250 gig hd and it’s only saying I have 131 or so. I just recently installed it and my xp. Somewhere I read that all of it should be detected when I install service pack 1, but that didn’t happen. Any ideas:ear:
Is there more than one partition on the drive?
Yeah right now there are 2
A few Pointers:
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HDD’s get converted by illiterate fools and sometimes they use the 1000 byte error instead of the correct 1024 byte conversion. Which would decrease space and show a smaller “uglier” and real number of GB you have.
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The formated HDD has some space which is not usable by the OS. Normally the companies who make the HDD’s don’t advertise this.
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The jumpers of the HDD might be able to reduce the size of the HDD to make it compatible with more computers.
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As you mentioned it has two partitions; and since I prefer to believe you can add; I know you added the two partition sizes and that is the number you were refering to in the beggining.
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You might have just not formated all of the harddrive when you installed the computer. Hence that space would have been “missing” from the size windows shows you. To format you need something like Gparted, or partition magic.
Forgive any of my blunders, as my brain dozes off while in windows…
well, if you previoulsy had it hooked up to a different device (like a maxtor external drive casing), that could have done the trick. sometimes the external hd casings aren’t made for larger capacities, so it appears the partition is smaller. to fix it, you can download a free utility from seagate’s site called something like Disk Tools, and you can reset the capacity.
Thanks Jolly, I used partition magic and got the full capacity back. Not sure why it was keeping over 100 gb unallocated:huh:
