Adding an external hard drive

Hi Skip,
I dont know about Wester Digital drives, but on some Seagate Hard drives , i
have seen that there is a jumper setting to limit the hard drive space (in
my instance it was a 40 GB hard disk and you could limit the size to 32 GB
through jumper settings). So please check the jumper settings/manual of the
HD, it may be offering to decrease the size from 180 GB to 128 GB through
some jumper settings.

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All the best,
Anando
"Skip Holmes" wrote in message
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Need a little help. I placed an 180GB Western Digital
hard drive into an external USB 2.0 case. Windows XP only
reads the drive size as 128 GB. What gives? I'm seeing
bigger hard drives on the market and am wondering what
people are doing to get them to work. I have crawled all
over the Microsoft support site trying to get an idea of
the size limitation issues, but really couldn't get any
good information. Do I solve the issue with a BIOS
upgrade (I have the most current Award BIOS), third party
software, or give up and just buy a 120 GB drive? Any
help would be much appreciated.

Thanks;

Skip Holmes