2007-01-27 05:13:51 · 6 answers · asked by switchland 2 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
Flash your BIOS, make sure you are using NTFS. After flashing your BIOS to latest date, see what BIOS reads how much space there is on your HDD. You might need to manually enter the specs of the drive, but you should be good after the flash.
2007-01-27 05:17:20 · answer #1 · answered by keith s 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Run the software that came with the hard drive to format it to its capacity ... you'll always lose a bit of space in larger drives, i.e. rather than 250g you may end up with 248 or less useable space.
If you didn't receive a disk with the drive, go to the manufacturers website and download it. Your system might not be recognizing the capacity and it might be limited to doing so...try the manufacturers suggestions first.
If you find the system is at fault, purchase an external hard drive case and use the drive from there...this will correct the capacity problem and you will then be able to format correctly.
2007-01-27 05:21:33 · answer #2 · answered by dustiiart 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1.Check the IDE cable
2.Try to re-format ur HDD(250gb)
3.If that doesn't wrk then try to make new partitions*
*probably this is the problem.
HDD doesn't shows the unpartitioned space on any OS.
2007-01-27 05:32:27 · answer #3 · answered by !Z^iN! 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First answer was going to be part of mine as well.
Also check to see if the drive only has a portion of it partitioned for use.
2007-01-27 05:19:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Update your BIOS, some older ones, will not recognize anything over 138GB.
2007-01-28 02:29:15 · answer #5 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sucks for you
return it
2007-01-27 05:18:06 · answer #6 · answered by b-randon 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋