# Hdd capacity problem

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hdd-capacity-problem/295769>\
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**Created:** [September 4, 2009, 1:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hdd-capacity-problem/295769 "2009-09-04T01:23:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![waseem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9dc877/32.png) [@waseem](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/waseem)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2009, 1:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hdd-capacity-problem/295769/1 "2009-09-04T01:23:09Z")

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hey guys,  
About a year ago I installed a second harddrive(80gb) as a slave on my ancient pentium 4 pc. Bios only identified it as 33.8gb and windows saw it as 31.5gb. I decided not to mess with it and just use it as it is. Now I need more hd space. Do you think the harddrive itself is defective or is it a problem with the bios? I checked the jumpers, they’re not set to a certain capcity they’re just set to slave. I don’t think its bios because my primary is 40gb.  
any thoughts?