I want to get my hard drives space back how do I do it?
My WD 160 reads as 127 GB and is connected as Master to IDE 1 of Promise Controller Card
My WD 180 reads as 149 Gb and is connected as Slave to IDE 1 of Motherboad
The two smaller drives work fine

I have a unique computer config, but basically here it is
One 40 Gb WD Caviar ATA100 <Basic> Application Drive C
One 160 GB WD WD Caviar ATA100 <Dynamic> Media Drive D:
One 180 Gb WD Caviar ATA100 <Basic> Media Drive E
One Seagate 2 Gb ATA100 <Basic> Scratch DIsk, and Virtual Memory Partition F

Other info is:
MSI K7D Master, Dual AMD 1800+'s, Cd and DVD drive attatched to IDE 2 on Mobo.

"Moocycles" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I want to get my hard drives space back how do I do it?
> My WD 160 reads as 127 GB and is connected as Master to IDE 1 of Promise
> Controller Card.
> My WD 180 reads as 149 Gb and is connected as Slave to IDE 1 of
> Motherboad.
> The two smaller drives work fine.
>
> I have a unique computer config, but basically here it is:
> One 40 Gb WD Caviar ATA100 <Basic> Application Drive C:
> One 160 GB WD WD Caviar ATA100 <Dynamic> Media Drive D:
> One 180 Gb WD Caviar ATA100 <Basic> Media Drive E:
> One Seagate 2 Gb ATA100 <Basic> Scratch DIsk, and Virtual Memory Partition
> F:
>
> Other info is:
> MSI K7D Master, Dual AMD 1800+'s, Cd and DVD drive attatched to IDE 2 on
> Mobo.

I'm not sure why the 180GB is reading 149GB but are they formatted NTFS or
FAT32?
Because I believe FAT32 only reads up to 127GB.
That doesn't explain the 149GB reading but it may at least be a place to
start.

FAT32 supports disk sizes up to 2 terabytes.

"wojo" <kwoyach[SPAM]53954@yahoo[SPAM].com> wrote in message
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>
> "Moocycles" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:B956EE04-4A33-4F85-90DE-(E-Mail Removed)...
> >I want to get my hard drives space back how do I do it?
> > My WD 160 reads as 127 GB and is connected as Master to IDE 1 of Promise
> > Controller Card.
> > My WD 180 reads as 149 Gb and is connected as Slave to IDE 1 of
> > Motherboad.
> > The two smaller drives work fine.
> >
> > I have a unique computer config, but basically here it is:
> > One 40 Gb WD Caviar ATA100 <Basic> Application Drive C:
> > One 160 GB WD WD Caviar ATA100 <Dynamic> Media Drive D:
> > One 180 Gb WD Caviar ATA100 <Basic> Media Drive E:
> > One Seagate 2 Gb ATA100 <Basic> Scratch DIsk, and Virtual Memory
Partition
> > F:
> >
> > Other info is:
> > MSI K7D Master, Dual AMD 1800+'s, Cd and DVD drive attatched to IDE 2 on
> > Mobo.
>
> I'm not sure why the 180GB is reading 149GB but are they formatted NTFS or
> FAT32?
> Because I believe FAT32 only reads up to 127GB.
> That doesn't explain the 149GB reading but it may at least be a place to
> start.
>
>
>