I built my own computer with a 320 Gb harddrive. I know it's that size b/c it's written right on it. the problem is that in windows xp pro, the size shows up as a total of 127Gb. It's trying to tell me that the size of the whole drive is 127Gb which i know it's not. how can i get it to recognize??
2006-11-20 09:03:06 · 7 answers · asked by robbiec87 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
Make sure you have the latest servicepack installed (SP2). You'll need it anyways if you wanna keep receiving updates from the Windows site.
If the BIOS detects the harddrive in full, start XP and goto Disk Management > Action > Rescan disks and see if it will pick up the correct size.
If the BIOS doesn't recognize the harddrive as 320 Gb, you'll need to find an updated BIOS for your motherboard. Check the site of the manufacturer for that (most motherboards made after 2003 will be able to recognize large harddrives).
As a last resort, you can goto the website of the manufacturer of the harddrive to see if they have extra drivers that will solve the problem for you.
2006-11-20 09:08:52 · answer #1 · answered by pete_can_do 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Who is your drive manufacturer, they may have a drive installation utility that will enable your computer to recognize a hard drive over 127Gb. For example Maxtor has the program Maxblast that makes the changes to your system registry so that windows recognizes the large HD's. The geeky way to do it can be found here http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013
But I would suggest going the drive utility route.
Another option is to use fdisk to partition the remaining portions of the drive....
2006-11-20 09:18:57 · answer #2 · answered by Fremen 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
part of the subject is HDD manufacturers evaluate a million KB = 1000 bytes, whilst your computing device considers a million KB = 1024 bytes. Extrapolate that out to Gigabytes, and the version would be fairly great. edit: mixed up MB and KB :-/ edit 2: HDD manufacturers would say a million GB = a million,000,000,000 bytes, your computing device would say a million GB = a million,073,741,824 bytes. So: HDD producer: 500 GB = 500,000,000,000 bytes Your computing device: 500,000,000,000 bytes = 465.661287 GB edit 3: I only found out you suggested 131 GB, no longer 431 GB. truthfully an XP difficulty, my undesirable.
2016-12-28 07:01:15 · answer #3 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that is true, sometimes your system (XP) might not realize how big the drive is or it might be beyond what the system will allow. other cases might be that the hard drive had some faults on it that won't allow for full functionality of the drive. try sending it in and telling them that it doesn't function proper, and when you get the new one, upon installation, partition it into 2 160 GB formats of NTFS and see if that works.
2006-11-20 09:10:34 · answer #4 · answered by John A 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Make sure the jumpers on the drive are set correctly. Some drives have caps that will allow older OS to recognize the drive, but that's usually a 2GB cap for WinNT. Also, make sure the drive is formatted correctly. Other than that, who knows? Windows is weird, you know?
2006-11-20 09:05:21 · answer #5 · answered by badnervesjones 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Really it depends. There could be lets of things on this keeping it from reading the full size.
1. did you partiion the disk with the manufacturer's instalation disk?
2. It could be a result of your mainboard BIOS.
include mainboard maker, type, harddrive maker, hard drive size and os, it could help.
2006-11-20 09:06:49 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
double click on your "my computer icon on desktop then right click on your "local C drive", then click properties. You will see your disk space on your hard drive and what is used and what is free. That will be the size of your hard drive. Maybe sumbudy tricked ya and said the hard drive was more than what it really is. Good luck. Mikie.
2006-11-20 09:10:35 · answer #7 · answered by Mikie 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋