Hi, i have a Compaq Presario, around 2 - 3 years old. Its running Windows Xp. The other day i purchased a larger hard drive for it, it came with a 60 gig, i bought a new Maxtor 160 gig hard drive. I get everything installed and running then i noticed that the computer says the hard drive is only reading around 33 gigs. I have not downloaded or installed hardly anything on it yet, its brand new. What could be the problem? I have installed hard drives on other comptuers i have owned but never ran into this kind of problem.
2006-12-12 08:06:49 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
The most likely problem is a jumper. Some hard drives have a "32gb limit" jumper in place that forces them to report a total capacity of 32 gigabytes, no matter how large they are... Grab the documentation that came with your drive (or look on the drive itself) for the jumper descriptions. If you move it away from the limit position, you should see the full drive capacity in Hardware SETUP.
It's also possible that your computer's BIOS is old enough that it doesn't recognize the full capacity of the new drive. You can check the Compaq/HP website for BIOS updates, but be careful. If that goes wrong, your system could be hosed...
If it's really a BIOS limitation, the easiest fix is to spend $30 and pick up a controller card (either SATA or ATA, depending upon the type of drive you bought) and connect the drive to that.
In any event, you'll have to reformat/reinstall afterwards.
2006-12-12 08:12:04 · answer #1 · answered by C-Man 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
You may want to check the BIOS to see if the mother board is seeing the full 160 gigs. If not, then see about flashing your BIOS to the latest firmware to see if that will resolve your issue.
You may also have to change the setting in the BIOS to get it to recognize the full capacity of the drive. XP can only see what the BIOS reports it has installed. So if the BIOS shows a 33 gig hard drive, then XP will only see it as a 33 gig hard drive.
2006-12-13 11:33:04 · answer #2 · answered by Sub Zero 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-18 04:29:15 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-12-12 08:12:09 · answer #4 · answered by Slim Shady 3 · 0⤊ 4⤋