Not showing true size of hard drive

[Jake]

I am running XP and installed a WD 80GB Hard drive and
windows only shows it as being 32GB. How can I get it to
acknowledge that other space.

[S.Heenan]

Jake wrote:
> I am running XP and installed a WD 80GB Hard drive and
> windows only shows it as being 32GB. How can I get it to
> acknowledge that other space.

If it's the only hard drive on the primary IDE channel, remove the jumper.
http://support.wdc.com/techinfo/general/jumpers.asp

The other issue may be that your BIOS does not support hard drives larger
than 32GB. If this is the case, a BIOS upgrade may solve it.
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[Freda]

Have you tried proceeding and seeing if it in fact ends up as a 32 GB or
not.
If you get hold of Fdisk with a date of 2000 (not the 1998 version)
You may get a different result.
When I first attempted to fdisk the WDC 80gb I got told it was
only 10 gb but just split it into 5 partitions of relevant % and it
formattted to 80Gb in total after fdisking using the xx % of disk
NOT actual Gb for each partition.
Freda
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"S.Heenan" > wrote in message
. ca...
> Jake wrote:
> > I am running XP and installed a WD 80GB Hard drive and
> > windows only shows it as being 32GB. How can I get it to
> > acknowledge that other space.
>
> If it's the only hard drive on the primary IDE channel, remove the jumper.
> http://support.wdc.com/techinfo/general/jumpers.asp
>
> The other issue may be that your BIOS does not support hard drives larger
> than 32GB. If this is the case, a BIOS upgrade may solve it.
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> Winerr 012 - Cash Underflow - Credit Card Number Will Be Assimilated
>
>

[Bob Willard]

Jake wrote:

> I am running XP and installed a WD 80GB Hard drive and
> windows only shows it as being 32GB. How can I get it to
> acknowledge that other space.

If you booted from the XP and then formatted the HD as FAT32
(instead of NTFS, the better choice in most cases), then you only
have a 32 GB partition. XP will only create a FAT32 part. up to
a max. of 32GB.

If that is how you caused the 32GB part., then I suggest formatting
that HD as NTFS if at all possible. If you really need a large
FAT32 part., then find a middle-aged copy of FDISK (really old FDISK
versions will limit you to even less than 32GB). Another option for
FAT32 is to create multiple parts, each less than 32GB; a PITA to
manage, but at least all of your HD is available.
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[Bob Willard]

Jake wrote:

> I am running XP and installed a WD 80GB Hard drive and
> windows only shows it as being 32GB. How can I get it to
> acknowledge that other space.

If you booted from the XP and then formatted the HD as FAT32
(instead of NTFS, the better choice in most cases), then you only
have a 32 GB partition. XP will only create a FAT32 part. up to
a max. of 32GB.

If that is how you caused the 32GB part., then I suggest formatting
that HD as NTFS if at all possible. If you really need a large
FAT32 part., then find a middle-aged copy of FDISK (really old FDISK
versions will limit you to even less than 32GB). Another option for
FAT32 is to create multiple parts, each less than 32GB; a PITA to
manage, but at least all of your HD is available.
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Cheers, Bob