Hard drive

[Guest]

I have just installed a new 160gb hard drive but windows only recognises 127gb.
I run xp sp2 fully upto date I have installed Maxtor 'big drive enabler' and
still it says 127gb despite saying that the 48 bit LBA is installed?
I am considering re formating but that might not make a difference.

David

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Check the support web site of the manufacturer of
your motherboard to determine how large a hard
drive your motherboard is capable of supporting.
A BIOS update may be available.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/

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| I have just installed a new 160gb hard drive but windows only recognises 127gb.
| I run xp sp2 fully upto date I have installed Maxtor 'big drive enabler' and
| still it says 127gb despite saying that the 48 bit LBA is installed?
| I am considering re formating but that might not make a difference.
|
| David

 

[Guest]

Thanks yes 160gb is ok and the motherboard (msi kt4vl) drivers etc are all
upto date

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Why can I only see 127 to 137 GBytes of my 160 GB drive in Windows XP?
http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/faq/137_winxp.html

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/

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| Thanks yes 160gb is ok and the motherboard (msi kt4vl) drivers etc are all
| upto date

 

[Alceryes]

I have just installed a new 160gb hard drive but windows only recognises
127gb.
I run xp sp2 fully upto date I have installed Maxtor 'big drive enabler'
and
still it says 127gb despite saying that the 48 bit LBA is installed?
I am considering re formating but that might not make a difference.

David

The Maxtor drive overlay is only for MB's and OS's that don't support large
drives. You don't need to use it. Backup all of your data first!! This
process will wipe the 160GB drive clean!!

Try booting off of your WinXP CD (with only the new 160GB drive attached).
Go into setup as if you are installing Windows new. At the point where you
pick the partition to install windows delete any and all partitions that
exist. When you are down to one line that says 'Unpartitioned Space' you
should have approx 160GB listed. If this is your boot drive just hit enter
at this point and continue installing windows as normal. If it is your
secondary drive then you need to create the partition first before you can
format it in Windows. Hit 'C', and of course make it the maximum space
available. Now you should see 'Partition 1' instead of 'Unpartitioned
Space'. Now that you created the partition just exit setup and boot into
windows like normal. Now you can format and use the drive to it's maximum
capacity.

 

[Guest]

(From [Tsuniper-X])
Please check the followings:

1. Did you error-check your hard drive?
-This happens mostly after using hard drive then formatted. Sometimes, the
hard drive usage doesn't fix that fast or will fix after you finish
error-checking the drive. You can error-check by right click the drive ->
Properties -> Tools -> the first option should be error-checking.

2. Is ANYTHING in your hard drive?
-When I first bought this computer, some programs were in use because of
backup and extra pre-installed programs. Of course, I assume that you have
installed an "empty" hard drive, but you might want to format to make sure
nothing is in the drive. If it's in use more than it should be, the only
thing I can say is it's for NTFS stuffs.

3. Did you calculate your hard drive in binary way?
-I have noticed my recently bought 40GB PEHD has about 2.5GB less than it
says on the cover of the product. Now, the company DID make 40GB, as in
40,000,000,000 bytes. But here's a thing. The computer doesn't calculate 40
billion bytes as 40GB. Instead, it calculates in binary way.

-Binary calculation may sound complicated at the first place, but you'll get
friendly...hopefully...Anyways, the main calculation is

2^0 for Bytes,(B)
2^10 for KiloBytes,(KB)
2^20 for MegaBytes,(MB)
2^30 for GigaBytes.(GB)

If you are familiar with math, "^" means power, which means 2^10 is 1024, or
2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2. The easiest way to calculate binary size is find the
size in Byte first. Let's say your hard drive is exactly 160,000,000,000
bytes. As I wrote, I will divide 160,000,000,000 by 2^30, because it's for GB
calculation. My calculator gave me 149.0116119384765625 GB, or simply 149GB.
Don't be sure your hard drive is almost 149GB because I just calculated.
Check your hard drive's size in Bytes, then you calculate it. This is
probably why the file properties show size in Bytes.

 

[Guest]

I have just re formated and updated windows xp it still reads
gb I noticed when I installed windows it gave a reading of 131070mb for the
hard drive this was before windows was installed after it gave a total
reading of 127.99gb


David

(From [Tsuniper-X])
Please check the followings:

1. Did you error-check your hard drive?
-This happens mostly after using hard drive then formatted. Sometimes, the > hard drive usage doesn't fix that fast or will fix after you finish
error-checking the drive. You can error-check by right click the drive ->
Properties -> Tools -> the first option should be error-checking.

2. Is ANYTHING in your hard drive?
-When I first bought this computer, some programs were in use because of
backup and extra pre-installed programs. Of course, I assume that you have
installed an "empty" hard drive, but you might want to format to make sure
nothing is in the drive. If it's in use more than it should be, the only
thing I can say is it's for NTFS stuffs.

3. Did you calculate your hard drive in binary way?
-I have noticed my recently bought 40GB PEHD has about 2.5GB less than it
says on the cover of the product. Now, the company DID make 40GB, as in
40,000,000,000 bytes. But here's a thing. The computer doesn't calculate 40
billion bytes as 40GB. Instead, it calculates in binary way.

-Binary calculation may sound complicated at the first place, but you'll get
friendly...hopefully...Anyways, the main calculation is

2^0 for Bytes,(B)
2^10 for KiloBytes,(KB)
2^20 for MegaBytes,(MB)
2^30 for GigaBytes.(GB)

If you are familiar with math, "^" means power, which means 2^10 is 1024, or
2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2. The easiest way to calculate binary size is find the
size in Byte first. Let's say your hard drive is exactly 160,000,000,000
bytes. As I wrote, I will divide 160,000,000,000 by 2^30, because it's for GB
calculation. My calculator gave me 149.0116119384765625 GB, or simply 149GB.
Don't be sure your hard drive is almost 149GB because I just calculated.
Check your hard drive's size in Bytes, then you calculate it. This is
probably why the file properties show size in Bytes.

I have just installed a new 160gb hard drive but windows only recognises 127gb.
I run xp sp2 fully upto date I have installed Maxtor 'big drive enabler' and
still it says 127gb despite saying that the 48 bit LBA is installed?
I am considering re formating but that might not make a difference.

David

 

[Guest]

I have just installed sp2 and checked the 'manage' in my computer and it
shows 24.67gb unallocated?
Is there any way of adding the 2 together?

David

 

[Plato]

I have just installed a new 160gb hard drive but windows only recognises 127gb.
I run xp sp2 fully upto date I have installed Maxtor 'big drive enabler' and
still it says 127gb despite saying that the 48 bit LBA is installed?
I am considering re formating but that might not make a difference.

Make sure your motherboard supports drives that large.

 

[Guest]

Yes the motherboard will take 160gb and now I have found the extra 24.67gb as
a seperate drive does anyone know how I can incorporate both as one to get
the full drive space? When I formated it did not recognise the extra but with
sp2 it does but seperate.

David

 

[Andy]

If you want Windows XP Setup program to see past 137GB on the disk,
you have to use a version that incorporates SP1 or SP2. You can do
this by slipstreaming your CD with the service pack.

 

[Guest]

(From [Tsuniper-X])
Umm...i just noticed your reply today...and i think you have partition
problem.
Partition is like a room. You can make as many partitions as possible(about
25 maximum...C:\ is essential, so A-Z excluding C...) as long as the space
for each partition is PROPER size. For example, if you have 30GB hard drive,
you can make C:\ 5GB and make 1GB for each partition.

Please make sure your hard drive that you are talking about has either
single partition or multi partition. If the hard drive has multi partition,
do the thingy...

1. Go to Control Panel. Open Administrative Tools.(Hopefully you can find it
on your own)

2. Open Computer Management.

3. On the left section, find and click Disk Management. All sorts of drive
should pop up.

4. USUALLY, if one drive has multi partitions, the diagram below should show
the status of each DRIVE.(Not the partition addresses) Check that your hard
drive has one blue rectangle and one black rectangle or something.

5. If your hard drive corresponds to the #4 that i just explained,(i suggest
you to backup files in your drive now...) right-click the BLUE rectangle of
your drive and click "delete partition". You should have one big black
rectangle described "Unallocated".

6. Right-click the BLACK rectangle, right-click it, click "Create a new
partition" <- something like that. You can do it by yourself from this
point...OH COME ON! =)

 

[Guest]

Thanks Everybody.
I have sorted the problem by installing a newer version of XP one with SP2
included.
This sorted the problem stright away.

Thanks Again Everyone.

David.

(From [Tsuniper-X])
Umm...i just noticed your reply today...and i think you have partition
problem.
Partition is like a room. You can make as many partitions as possible(about
25 maximum...C:\ is essential, so A-Z excluding C...) as long as the space
for each partition is PROPER size. For example, if you have 30GB hard drive,
you can make C:\ 5GB and make 1GB for each partition.

Please make sure your hard drive that you are talking about has either
single partition or multi partition. If the hard drive has multi partition,
do the thingy...

1. Go to Control Panel. Open Administrative Tools.(Hopefully you can find it
on your own)

2. Open Computer Management.

3. On the left section, find and click Disk Management. All sorts of drive
should pop up.

4. USUALLY, if one drive has multi partitions, the diagram below should show
the status of each DRIVE.(Not the partition addresses) Check that your hard
drive has one blue rectangle and one black rectangle or something.

5. If your hard drive corresponds to the #4 that i just explained,(i suggest
you to backup files in your drive now...) right-click the BLUE rectangle of
your drive and click "delete partition". You should have one big black
rectangle described "Unallocated".

6. Right-click the BLACK rectangle, right-click it, click "Create a new
partition" <- something like that. You can do it by yourself from this
point...OH COME ON! =)

Yes the motherboard will take 160gb and now I have found the extra 24.67gb as
a seperate drive does anyone know how I can incorporate both as one to get
the full drive space? When I formated it did not recognise the extra but with
sp2 it does but seperate.

David