Computer Hope
Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: ilef on July 08, 2005, 11:58:35 AM
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Hi,
Can someone help, please?
I've just installed a 200 Gbyte Seagate hard Disk Drive- model: Barracuda 7200.7.
My coputer is a P4 with 2.8 GHz processor, and a Gigabyte 533 MHz motherboard.
Why does the computer indicate the hard disk size as only as about 131Gigabytes?
Thanks,
ilef
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Maybe it needs formating......
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Welll...one of my friends also has the same problem. Ummm I think that may be the hard disk in not fully compatible with board. Anyway ... try one thing. Boot your PC with Windows98 bootable CD. Now goto to the win98 folder on your bootable CD. And type fdisk.exe.
Because you are about to repartition your hard disk. First of all delete all exisitng partitions and then create new partitions as you like. Now restart your PC and again boot it with Windows98 bootable CD and format all newly created drives. Remember just type:
FORMAT x:
Where x represent drive. You must not use any switch. When you finished formating all drives then install windows operating system. I do hope that now your PC will show correct hard disk size. If you find this helpfull, please tell me okay. My e-mail address is:
[email protected]
okay take care of you and others and be happy.
DeW
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Much thanks Dr Wahab! Also for your interest and help, Merlin_21!
I originally had formatted the disk in NTFS system to install Windows XP.
Following Dr Wahab's advice, I used fdisk.exe to first create a FAT 32 partition and to format the disk. I then converted partition to NTFS on installing Windows XP.
The PC does now show the correct disk size.
Once again- thanks!
ilef
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Ok thanks for the feed back..
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u never get the exact size they say on the box. My external drive said 80 GB but it was 78GB they round up so the Price and go up
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Problem explained >>
Why can I only see 127 to 137 GBytes of my 160+ GB drive in Windows XP?
http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/faq/137_winxp.html
http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/index_faq.html
Seagate Rules!
http://fdisk.com/fdisk/