I just bought the hard drive and when I formatted it by running "Computer Management" on my computer, the space after formatting showed only 128gb. I know some space would be loss but surely not that much. I did run a program called "testdisk" before formatting and actually toyed with some of the functions. Maybe it has to do with that? I'm not so sure.
2006-12-04 03:27:54 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
If you are on a SATA drive windows has a fix for that. It's a LBA common problem. If not, the previous partition may still be on the drive.
John
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2006-12-04 03:32:28 · answer #1 · answered by A+ Certified Professional 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How many partitions did you put on the drive?
Did you put the drive in an "older" system that has trouble "accessing" very large drives?
EACH partition will require some "overhead" space.
Some systems require a "helper" program in order to access the entire drive on very large drives, and this will ALSO take some space.
There are many reasons this could happen, including a "hidden" partition you are unaware of.
You could try repartitioning and/or reformatting with all settings at "default", and see what the difference is.
NOTE: The NTFS file system is more secure, BUT has HIGHER "overhead" than the FAT system.
I have a 300GB HD with 6 partitions, after formatting I have 260GB available, BUT I reduced the "sector" size, which added to the overhead, and ALSO formatted the some partitions with different file systems.
2006-12-04 04:00:36 · answer #2 · answered by f100_supersabre 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As mentioned earlier, there is an SBIOS limitation that may limit you to 128 GB. Check your SBIOS documentation as to which setting to use (Large?) to overcome this. You will have to reformat if you change this setting. You may require an SBIOS update to get access to this setting, which I think affects SATA only (not sure). I always use Large setting.
Also, the "advertised" size of a hard disk includes all the space used for administrative overhead of each sector, and some spare space for replacement bad sectors. The actual usable space is typically about 5 % less.
2006-12-04 07:01:48 · answer #3 · answered by Hansi 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There could be old partions on the drive, many drives over 100gb require drivers to get full use out of the harddrive. Windows instalation uses some space.....but not that much.
Personally, I would try a new install/reformat till I got full use of your harddrive. Also, do a google search for your harddrive, and drivers......see if it requires special drivers.
2006-12-04 03:52:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-13 23:46:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your hardware or drive controller may only support 128 GB, what type of computer do you have ?
2006-12-04 04:11:43 · answer #6 · answered by Albert F 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You probably need to change the type of disk. Try making it Dynamic instead of Basic.
2006-12-04 04:01:29 · answer #7 · answered by theanswerman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Reformat just using windows disk management use NTFS
2006-12-04 03:30:58 · answer #8 · answered by watchher01 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋