120 Gig hard drive formatting issues

[tim]

Hello all. I have a WD1200(120 gig) hard drive that i am
trying to add as my second hard drive. It is hooked up to
my Dell inspiron 5000 laptop via firewire, the drive is in
a extrenal enclosure using the oxford 911 chip. I just
want to format the damn thing and have windows see all of
it. I can go into device manager and select the hard
drive; it sees a WD1200 with a capacity of about 112 gigs,
but that is all. i have tried several different windows
boot disk in an attempt to format the drive, but i seem to
be limited at 32 gigs. any help would be great thanks.


thanks

[Mathiau]

yes, the drives are NOT 120g, but only about 111g or so.

the actual size they put on the package is not the actual size - they simply
round it off.

i have 4 of the 120g drives and they all come out to 111g.

as for the 32g part - are you formating it in NTFS as fat 32 can not handle
120g HD's.

also, older BIOS's on computer can not see over 32g - u may need to update
the bios on your system.

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"tim" > wrote in message
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> Hello all. I have a WD1200(120 gig) hard drive that i am
> trying to add as my second hard drive. It is hooked up to
> my Dell inspiron 5000 laptop via firewire, the drive is in
> a extrenal enclosure using the oxford 911 chip. I just
> want to format the damn thing and have windows see all of
> it. I can go into device manager and select the hard
> drive; it sees a WD1200 with a capacity of about 112 gigs,
> but that is all. i have tried several different windows
> boot disk in an attempt to format the drive, but i seem to
> be limited at 32 gigs. any help would be great thanks.
>
>
> thanks

[Michael]

Ya, your correct on the NTFS part which is needed for=20
anything over 32gig.

About the 120gig us bit really 120gig...
Hard Drive manufactures list 1gig as 1000 bytes, but=20
windows reads 1gig as 1024 bytes. So 120gig is really=20
117gig, but then after its formated, there is a MBR and=20
other things that consume the other part.

>-----Original Message-----
>yes, the drives are NOT 120g, but only about 111g or so.
>
>the actual size they put on the package is not the actual=20
size - they simply
>round it off.
>
>i have 4 of the 120g drives and they all come out to 111g.
>
>as for the 32g part - are you formating it in NTFS as fat=20
32 can not handle
>120g HD's.
>
>also, older BIOS's on computer can not see over 32g - u=20
may need to update
>the bios on your system.
>
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>Too much time on his hands
>life ain't short, your just dead for too long!
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>
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>"tim" > wrote in message
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>> Hello all. I have a WD1200(120 gig) hard drive that i=20
am
>> trying to add as my second hard drive. It is hooked up=20
to
>> my Dell inspiron 5000 laptop via firewire, the drive is=20
in
>> a extrenal enclosure using the oxford 911 chip. I just
>> want to format the damn thing and have windows see all=20
of
>> it. I can go into device manager and select the hard
>> drive; it sees a WD1200 with a capacity of about 112=20
gigs,
>> but that is all. i have tried several different windows
>> boot disk in an attempt to format the drive, but i seem=20
to
>> be limited at 32 gigs. any help would be great thanks.
>>
>>
>> thanks
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