Hard drive has half capacity

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I just installed my new hard drive, it's a 60 GB, but only shows 31 GB
XP Pr
K7SE

Thanks.
 
Limitations of the FAT32 File System in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314463&Product=winxp

How to Partition and Format a Hard Disk in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;313348&Product=winxp

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|I just installed my new hard drive, it's a 60 GB, but only shows 31 GB.
| XP Pro
| K7SEM
|
| Thanks.
 
Is it FAT32? The largest you can make a drive in XP using FAT32 is 32Gb.
Only option is to use a 98,SE, or ME boot disk and run FDISK and format from
it. Then XP will recognize drives larger than 32GB.

Or use NTFS.
 
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