About my hard drive

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I got a 250 Gigabyte hard drive but my Operating System doesn't see all 250
Gigabytes of it. Why is that & How can I get it to see all 250 Gigabytes?
It's actually only seeing like 130 Gigabytes of it. If anybody can help me
with this problem it would greatly be appreciated.

Thanks,

David
 
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

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| I got a 250 Gigabyte hard drive but my Operating System doesn't see all 250
| Gigabytes of it. Why is that & How can I get it to see all 250 Gigabytes?
| It's actually only seeing like 130 Gigabytes of it. If anybody can help me
| with this problem it would greatly be appreciated.
|
| Thanks,
|
| David
 
DWADE10261974 said:
I got a 250 Gigabyte hard drive but my Operating System doesn't see all 250
Gigabytes of it. Why is that & How can I get it to see all 250 Gigabytes?
It's actually only seeing like 130 Gigabytes of it. If anybody can help me
with this problem it would greatly be appreciated.

Thanks,

David
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You probably need to update your bios to a current version. You will need
to check your PC and/or motherboard manufacturer for updated bios
information.
 
You may need to update your BIOS. What brand is your hard drive? Is it IDE
or SATA? How old is your computer? Which service pack of XP are you using?
Let us know. You may also want to go into the disk manager to make sure you
don't have some space that's unallocated.
 
I got a Western Digital, 7200 RPM, 8 MB Cache, 250 Gigabyte Hard Drive. It is
IDE-ATA Interface. I have Windows XP Home Edition with Service Pack 2 on it.
The only thing that I think might be the problem is that the computer is
quite old. I got it back in January of 1999. It's got a Pentinum II 450Mhz
processor. You might be right about updating my BIOS. Let me know what you
think know that you know more information about my computer.
 
Yeah, you'll definitely need to update the BIOS if you can. If that doesn't
work, you'd probably have to get a separate adapter to get it detected
properly.
 
Good choice on a hard drive by the way.
DWADE10261974 said:
I got a Western Digital, 7200 RPM, 8 MB Cache, 250 Gigabyte Hard Drive. It
is
IDE-ATA Interface. I have Windows XP Home Edition with Service Pack 2 on
it.
The only thing that I think might be the problem is that the computer is
quite old. I got it back in January of 1999. It's got a Pentinum II 450Mhz
processor. You might be right about updating my BIOS. Let me know what you
think know that you know more information about my computer.
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It's almost certainly a BIOS issue and I doubt you can find a suitable
update for that old of a system, but it's worth checking out. If you can't
find a BIOS update you need to either install the drive on a controller
card that is 48-bit LBA aware, or install the WD drive overlay/manager
which can be downloaded from their website.
 
The BIOS won't make any difference. Right click on My Computer and
select Manage. Then click on Disk Management. You should see
unallocated disk space which you can partition and format.
 
=?Utf-8?B?RFdBREUxMDI2MTk3NA==?= said:
I got a Western Digital, 7200 RPM, 8 MB Cache, 250 Gigabyte Hard Drive. It is
IDE-ATA Interface. I have Windows XP Home Edition with Service Pack 2 on it.
The only thing that I think might be the problem is that the computer is
quite old. I got it back in January of 1999. It's got a Pentinum II 450Mhz
processor. You might be right about updating my BIOS. Let me know what you
think know that you know more information about my computer.
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Yes, your pc has a bios limitation. One could see if a new bios flash
app addresses that niggle, or to be really safe, one might buy a pci hd
controller card.
 
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