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New hard drive not showing full capacity?
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| midaV |
So I installed my new 200GB HD and it only shows 127gb. On the Seagate website it says you need Service Pack 1 or higher, which I do have. I am going to contact technical support within the next few days...
But I was wondering if anyone has experienced this, and how to solve it?
Thanks in advance! |
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| A83 |
| Winblows doesn't like to read drives above 120 or 130...partition it into two fragments (Partition Magic) and you'll get full capacity :) |
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| midaV |
hmmmm how weird??:wtf:
Thank you for that A83, now that I partitioned my drive I am getting the "FULL" amount im guessing which is always less then what is stated, now I am at 186gb for a 200gb HD.. nice! Why is a partition necessary though?:conf: |
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| Geoff |
| i have a 200gig and it does the same thing. I have a controller card that allows windows to see all 200gigs. if u have a controller card, make sure u upgrade the drivers. |
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| midaV |
| What is a controller card Geoff? |
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| A83 |
If you split the hdd up into partitions...mycockissoft winblows will read it as seprate hdd's :)
Controller Card: http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=16-102-002&depa=0 |
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| midaV |
| ohh ic, I guess partitioning is my only choice for now unless I can figure out another method to get it all on one partition.. |
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| keddo |
| read the ntsf / fat32 in windows help about windows file systems, might enlighten you. |
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| Zenchowdah |
| quote: | Originally posted by midaV
hmmmm how weird??:wtf:
Thank you for that A83, now that I partitioned my drive I am getting the "FULL" amount im guessing which is always less then what is stated, now I am at 186gb for a 200gb HD.. nice! Why is a partition necessary though?:conf: |
by 200 gig, they mean 200,000,000,000 bytes, but as we all know 1 billion bytes != 1 gig. 1 gig = 1,073,741,824 bytes.
quick bit o math, two hundred billion divided by 1073741824 = 186.264gb :) |
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| Lil-H |
You do _NOT_ have to partition your hdd
I have at home a 250Gb disk, 1 partition, total space of 225 I think
Ehm, you will have to get a boot floppy, boot up floppy, do some "f-disk" command in dos
format x:/ and you will have all the space you need.
I might be telling you wrong, but it will work without needing to partition :) |
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| Zenchowdah |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lil-H
You do _NOT_ have to partition your hdd
I have at home a 250Gb disk, 1 partition, total space of 225 I think
Ehm, you will have to get a boot floppy, boot up floppy, do some "f-disk" command in dos
format x:/ and you will have all the space you need.
I might be telling you wrong, but it will work without needing to partition :) |
he just did it and he said it worked. no more need for help. :) |
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| Lil-H |
| quote: | Originally posted by midaV
ohh ic, I guess partitioning is my only choice for now unless I can figure out another method to get it all on one partition.. |
so obviously he didnt get what he really wanted. I just told him he didnt have to partition... |
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