How do I Unlock my true Hardrive size XP Pro

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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.
 
Moocycles said:
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.
Click to expand...

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 said:
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.
Click to expand...
 
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