Formatting a 120 gig hdd

[Mike Cee]

I am building my first box. I have a 120 gig hdd.When
formatting the hdd ,NTSF, I was given the option to format
a 32 gig hdd. My bios lists the hdd as 120 gig. How do I
get xp pro to format a 120 hdd? Every thing else works
well. Thank you your help
Mike

[Randy Byrne [MVP]]

What PC or motherboard do you have? We would need to know the motherboard
limitations. I've seem motherboards report the correct MB but not actually support
that size.
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Randy Byrne
Microsoft MVP (Windows Technologies)
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"Mike Cee" > wrote in message
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> I am building my first box. I have a 120 gig hdd.When
> formatting the hdd ,NTSF, I was given the option to format
> a 32 gig hdd. My bios lists the hdd as 120 gig. How do I
> get xp pro to format a 120 hdd? Every thing else works
> well. Thank you your help
> Mike

[Mike Cee]

Hi Randy
My motherboard is an Asus a7v333 512 mb ram
120 gig deskstar hdd. I had to use the (set of 6 floppy
disk) boot disk to get the xp cd to work. When formatting
I was asked what size partition to create, the default size
was 32 gig (listed in bytes) I wasn't paying attention and
accepted this vaule, thinking xp would create one partition
the size of the entire disk.
Thanks for your help
Mike
>-----Original Message-----
>What PC or motherboard do you have? We would need to know
the motherboard
>limitations. I've seem motherboards report the correct MB
but not actually support
>that size.
>--
>
>Randy Byrne
>Microsoft MVP (Windows Technologies)
>http://support.microsoft.com/support/mvp
>Associate Expert
>http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
>Do not email me, please use the newsgroup so that everyone
benefits.
>
>
>"Mike Cee" > wrote in message
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>> I am building my first box. I have a 120 gig hdd.When
>> formatting the hdd ,NTSF, I was given the option to format
>> a 32 gig hdd. My bios lists the hdd as 120 gig. How do I
>> get xp pro to format a 120 hdd? Every thing else works
>> well. Thank you your help
>> Mike
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