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10-21-2005, 11:13 PM
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200gb HD showing 30gb in WinXP Prof
I'm sorry if this is one of those problems that has a really obvious answer and is asked every day, but I searched for it and couldn't find anything quite the same. My friend's computer has a 200gb hard drive that is only showing 30gb of space. It appears that the bios thinks that the hard drive is only 30gb as well. He's running WinXP and has a DFI NFII Ultra Infinity motherboard. The harddrive, as far as I can tell, is a Hitachi 200gb IDE drive. (It also has "Deskstar" written on it) It's 7200 RPM. If it matters he is also running an Athlon XP 2000+. When I went to reformat it said that the partitioned space is around 30 gb and the unpartitioned 8mb. If anyone could help, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
-Sanguimancer Edit: I forgot to mention that it could be a BIOS limit, as in the stickied thread, but I searched google and could find no indication that there's such a limit on this mother board. Last edited by Sanguimancer; 10-21-2005 at 11:17 PM. |
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10-21-2005, 11:21 PM
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edit : Okay, on second thought it sounds like the drive should be checked with a diagnostic.
XP would only recognize 30 GB if the drive were formatted in FAT 32, the bios shouldn't be having any trouble. Allburnintegrated is right about checking the jumper on the back.
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10-22-2005, 01:33 AM
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Check the jumpers on the back of it. It's not on 'limit size to 32GB' or something like that, is it?
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10-23-2005, 06:37 PM
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I never even thought to look at the jumpers, but they were infact, the problem. Thanks for the help.
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