Windows 2000 only seeing 130 gig on a 160 gig hard drive

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Mike

Im trying to get my whole hard drive useable. does anyone
out there know how to make windows 2000 pro see it all?
 
What brand?
If they provide a partitioning and formatting tool use it. Mine comes with a program that
runs in windows to do that, at least if it is not the primary boot partition.
 
You have to install SP3 or 4. Then run Disk Management to create
another partition from the unallocated space.
 
Mike, does the manufacturer say that it is 160GB? That would mean (to
the disk manufacturers) that it is rated at 160 x 1000 x 1000 x 1000
bytes. However to the OS guys 160,000,000,000 bytes is about 149GB
since they measure 1kB as 1024B. With the space taken up by formatting
and so on, you'd be lucky to get anywhere near 149GB of space. 130GB
seems fairly reasonable.

Cheers,

Cliff
 
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