drive size

T

thx42

I just installed vista home edition on a new sata 320 hard drive
I found out that it only reconized 130 gigs, how can I utilize the 320 gigs
Thanks
 
J

John Barnes

Are we supposed to guess where it shows 130 gigs? Go to Administrative
tools/Computer management/Disk management and see what it shows for the disk
and partition you have Vista on. Does the BIOS show 320 during POST?
 
R

Rick Rogers

Hi,

Check your BIOS drive detection settings to ensure that 48-bit LBA is
enabled. For some Intel chipsets, you may need to download and install the
Intel Application Accelerator utility in order to make full use of the
drive.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
 

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