NTFS formatted 2nd hard drive wrong

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I installed a 2nd 80Gb drive into my old computer and NTFS will only format
it as a 32Gb drive my C drive is a 40Gb and is formated ok my os is XP Pro
 
Furm said:
I installed a 2nd 80Gb drive into my old computer and NTFS will only format
it as a 32Gb drive my C drive is a 40Gb and is formated ok my os is XP Pro
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You must have selected fat32 as XP only allows up to 32gig


delete it and start over and be sure to use NTFS
 
philo said:
You must have selected fat32 as XP only allows up to 32gig


delete it and start over and be sure to use NTFS
no I formatted it as NTFS have done it twice and get the same thing
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Furm said:
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first off, does the bios see the drive as 80 gigs?

what does disk management show?

is there a 32 gig partition and then approx 50 gigs of free space

you may have to delete everything and then recreate as one (NTFS) partition
 
philo said:
first off, does the bios see the drive as 80 gigs?

what does disk management show?

is there a 32 gig partition and then approx 50 gigs of free space

you may have to delete everything and then recreate as one (NTFS) partition
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no it only shows 32 Gb and no free space no new bios for my old computer I
think
it does not see anything over 40Gb so what can I do to get it to see the 80Gb
 
no it only shows 32 Gb and no free space no new bios for my old computer I
think
it does not see anything over 40Gb so what can I do to get it to see the 80Gb
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if your bios does not see the whole drive
you need to see if there is an updated bios
or else get a PCI controller
 
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Furm said:
I installed a 2nd 80Gb drive into my old computer and NTFS
will only format it as a 32Gb drive my C drive is a 40Gb
and is formated ok my os is XP Pro
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Check the jumpers on your hard drive. Some drives can be
configured to have a limit of 32 GB.

Good luck

Nepatsfan
 
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actually i just though of two things (it's probably the first) :

1) since your main drive is 40 gigs and was detected OK...
it may not be a bios limitation. Look carefully at the jumperes on your
drive...as it *might* have been set for a machine with a bios limit.
there may be a jumper limiting the capactiy of the drive to 32 gigs.
if so, simply remove that jumper


2) in XP (and many other OS's) the 2nd HD does *not* depend on a BIOS
call. so if it's not a case of the drive beinging jumpered for 32gigs...
go back into the bios and for that drive specify "none".
The bios call will not be used and the OS should see the full drive capacity
 
Nepatsfan said:
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Check the jumpers on your hard drive. Some drives can be
configured to have a limit of 32 GB.

Good luck

Nepatsfan


I have the jumper on S for slave but still can only get 32Gb not 80Gb
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