Hard Drive Capacity

[andrew1224]

Hello guys
I recently built a new computer and it runs perfectly, but I have problem with hard drive capacity.
Although I bought 320GB seagate hard drive, the computer only reads about 130GB.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822148140
Do you guys have any idea what is the problem?
Thank you.

Here is my comp spec

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 Conroe 1.86GHz 2M shared L2 Cache LGA 775 Processor - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819115005

Mother: ASUS P5B LGA 775 Intel P965 Express ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131030

Video: EVGA 256-P2-N550 -T2 GeForce 7600GT 256MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814130073

Ram: CORSAIR ValueSelect 1GB (2 x 512MB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 667 (PC2 5300) Desktop Memory - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820145568

CD/DVD: LG Black 18X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R DL 18X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 12X DVD-RAM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2MB Cache IDE Super-Multi DVD Burner - OEM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16827136108

[Cricket]

What OS are you using?

If WinXP, do you have either SP1 or SP2 installed? Without either Service Pack WinXP will see only see 137GB of the hard drive.

Cricket

[andrew1224]

I am using WinXP and I have installed both SP1 and SP2.

[E-1337]

You may want to try this. Right click on your "my computer" and select "manage" from the drop down list. Once you open that, select "disk management" from the menus and see if your drive you are describing comes up all as one partition. I know I had the same problem you are having with one of my drives, and I had to format it in order for Windows to pick up the whole thing. Hope that helps. =)

[glc]

If you installed XP with no service packs to begin with, all you will see is 128gb. The rest will show up in disk management as unallocated. You have 3 choices - use Partition Magic to resize the partition, create a new partition and format it, or make a slipstreamed XP disk with SP2 already incorporated, wipe, and reinstall from scratch.