2007-02-19 01:55:27 · 5 answers · asked by Maria B 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
Is the problem likely to be that your PC is a few years old and you recently installed a large hard drive?
Sometimes the BIOS won't recognise hard drives over a certain size. If so, you may be able to flash update the BIOS. Check the mainboard manufacturer's website.
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO-4.html
2007-02-19 04:42:15 · answer #1 · answered by 86er 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure what you mean by "uncap". Did you buy, say a 200 gig hard drive, but it claims on your computer that it only has a 180 gig or so capacity? The problem is caused by the different ways that hard drive manufacturers and Windows measure just how large a "kilobyte" or "gigabyte" really is.
Here is a slightly better explanation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_drive#Capacity_measurements
2007-02-19 14:28:22 · answer #2 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is it a large Hard Drive showing 127GB? If so, you need to enable 48-bit LBA.
Windows XP Service Pack 1 addresses this, or you could flash the BIOS.
Microsoft cover this problem http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;305098
It is also relevant for Windows XP, despite saying Windows2000
2007-02-19 15:52:37 · answer #3 · answered by Brian H 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you have a maxtor hard drive go to maxtor and download max4 this will do the job for you. Otherwise you can get partition magic and use that.
You could also use fdisk and partition the drive that way
2007-02-19 10:06:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Format the hard drive, repartition it using the full disk size.
Reinstall windows.
Otherwise, try partition manager programme, which is free to try.
2007-02-19 09:59:24 · answer #5 · answered by gav 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋