| Hard drive capacity way off?! - Click HERE for Original Thread |
| LudeDude19 |
| ok to make this short, i got a 200GB hard drive installed yesterday and when i click on it and read its TOTAL CAPACITY it says its only good up to 127GB...wtf is going on with that?! |
|
|
| LudeDude19 |
hey thanks for your help
unfortunately; when i go to run the big drive enable program it says this:
"Support is currently enabled for 48-bit Logical Block Addressing (LBA) for ATAPI disk drives. You do not need to run this registry update. Click 'OK' to exit."
so now i'm really confused! |
|
|
| Qoo |
| did you partition it yet? |
|
|
| LudeDude19 |
here's the scoop
old hard drive is 80Gb and HAD the OS on it
new hard drive is supposed to be 200Gb and it now has the OS on it
old hard drive is currently empty
new hard drive is running the OS and runs at 127Gb
i have no idea how to partition and all that jazz
my room mate said there is a way to manually change the registry so that it will recognize that the drive is ACTUALLY 200Gb and not just 127Gb...any thoughts? |
|
|
| PraxRX7 |
Ok, you probably need to put in your old Hard drive, with the Old OS and reformat and partition the 200 GB drive as a 200 GB drive.
Right now the 200 GB drive is probably formatted and partitioned as a 127 GB drive (windows setup wouldnt have been able to see all 200GB most likely)
You might be able to use the utilities from the manufacturer to create another partition out of the remaining space on the HDD, if not...
Put in your old HDD and old OS, download the Maxtor or WesternDigital (or whatever manufacturer your drive is) utilities and use those utitlities to format and partition the drive.
Maxtor is MAX BLAST UTILITIES i believe.
WDigital is Datalifeguard tools
Then install the OS on the drive.
Sux, but thems the breaks.
Good luck... |
|
|
| PraxRX7 |
Sorry i forgot to mention you have one alternative that MIGHT work.
If you go into your Control Panel, go into "COMPUTER MANAGEMENT" and then under your Disk Management, there is a chance that you might be able to see the second part of your drive in there, at which point you should be able to assign it a drive letter and format it.
Good Luck. :thumbup: |
|
|
| LudeDude19 |
BOTH hard drives are currently installed
the old hard drive has no OS on it...its blank right now
the new hard drive (200GB one) has everything on it..including OS
the device manager didn't help me any |
|
|
| PraxRX7 |
Well if you cant figure it out, PM me and I can always come take a look. :thumbup:
Either that or I can take over your computer through MSN and try to do it...let me know. |
|
|
| gerrycurl |
| i bought a 60 gig external, reads as 76gb but i aint complaining lol |
|
|
|
|
|
