My hdd

[GhostMjr]

Ok i bought a western digital hard drive a few months back but it has a capacity of 160gb! For sme reason it only shows 127gb in windows! There are no partitions on the drives! I contacted western digital who were helpful for someone who is hardware minded but i am reletively new to all this hdd nonsense! Some about changing some bit format blah blah went straight over my head! Can some1 who has done this or knows the solution please put it in very noobish terms for me as i don't want to not have 40gb tht i could have but windows won't let me access it

MODEL- WD1600JB_OOEVAO

[Grimnar]

that is normal.


Windows doesn't show the rest because it can't.

You have to make partitions on the drive to see all of it.


I have 2 hdd's 1 200GB and 1 80GB

the 200 is shown as 120 in windows but i maked two partitions on it and then it shows the full 200GB.


So don't think your hdd is broken down or windows doesn't work correct because it is normal.

[Benny]

That's not strictly true.

What OS?

If you are running XP with NTFS it recognises large drives. Post all the details here.

[Grimnar]

Originally posted by Benny@Aug 4 2004, 10:01 AM
If you are running XP with NTFS it recognises large drives. Post all the details here.

Then it should be the first time i see that with xp.

[GhostMjr]

I am running windows xp home edition! and i updated my bios as i thought that could be the problem! from A03 to A09 from dell! I read xp does not support drives over 127gb i may have misinterpretted this tho  :whistle:

[Benny]

ok, not my words, but from the MS guys here at work (edited as I'm a dick)

'I have a 160gig drive running with no problems at all, it recognised it and off it went'

I'll ask him again..


/Benny goes back to desk and stops passing off other peoples information as his own

[Dingo]

You might find this useful? <_<

http://www.theeldergeek.com/hard_drives.htm

[suicidal_monkey]

Originally posted by GhostMjr@Aug 4 2004, 09:10 AM
I am running windows xp home edition! and i updated my bios as i thought that could be the problem! from A03 to A09 from dell! I read xp does not support drives over 127gb i may have misinterpretted this tho  :whistle:

I just read it's 137Gb ... go figure
Several people say it's because your XP is old and not update to SP1.
Others suggest it could be your motherboard of course, reaching a limit.

more from google...
http://support.octek.com.au/FAQ/faq_0113.htm
http://forums.sudhian.com/messageview.cfm?...61617&forumid=1
http://hardware.mcse.ms/message37716.html
...google is your friend

[suicidal_monkey]

eep

post went in twice

hate that

 :dummy:

[Dr Sadako]

I have windows XP and the following

120 GB Seagate SATA-> Capacity 111 GB
200 GB Maxtor SATA-> Capacity 189 GB
160 GB Seagate -> Capacity 149 GB
160 GB Samsung -> Capacity 149 GB
120 GB Seagate -> Capacity 111 GB

You will never get out the full GB of a HDD, simple as that.

[GhostMjr]

Originally posted by Sadako@Aug 4 2004, 11:30 AM
I have windows XP and the following

120 GB Seagate SATA-> Capacity 111 GB
200 GB Maxtor SATA-> Capacity 189 GB
160 GB Seagate -> Capacity 149 GB
160 GB Samsung -> Capacity 149 GB
120 GB Seagate -> Capacity 111 GB

You will never get out the full GB of a HDD, simple as that.

mines about 40gb off tho  :angry: Mine is an IDE drive so iu am still not sure wot to do  :whistle:

[Cadaver]

Originally posted by Sadako@Aug 4 2004, 12:30 PM
I have windows XP and the following

120 GB Seagate SATA-> Capacity 111 GB
200 GB Maxtor SATA-> Capacity 189 GB
160 GB Seagate -> Capacity 149 GB
160 GB Samsung -> Capacity 149 GB
120 GB Seagate -> Capacity 111 GB

You will never get out the full GB of a HDD, simple as that.

This is normal.  It's not the fact you're not getting the full indicated capacity of the drive, rather Windows is reporting it 'differently'.

HDD sizes are reported using base10 format.  So a 120GB drive is actually 120x10^9 bytes (or 120,000,000,000 bytes ).

The confusion comes when Windows reports the hard drive using the standard base2 format it uses for memory, i.e.

120,000,000,000 bytes / 1024 = 117187500 KB
117187500 KB / 1024 = ~114441 MB
114441 MB / 1024 = ~111 GB

Windows XP has a limitation on the maximum HDD size being 137 GB.  See here for details.  SP1 is supposed to fix this limitation, as suicidal_monkey rightly said.

[Benny]

SO I was right then....

That info was all mine.

[Rabbi Bob]

I'm late to the party  :blink:

Someone else was asking me about this today.  Another read on the same thing:

http://support.octek.com.au/FAQ/faq_0113.htm

[Barley]

The simple answer, but smaller hard drives guys!