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[Mandingo]

I finally got my puter to recognize a 160gb drive that I put in. But why does it say its only 127gb?

 

[Mandingo]

Do I need to format my drive? If I do, do I do quick format or not.

 

[Mandingo]

Ok, update. I have read that for some reason..Ata 100 only supports up to 137GB, it is a hardware limitation. Dont know why they would make a 160gb ATA 100 HD then...?

 

[chooka]

Its a limitation for Windows. If you have service pak 1 atleast you should be able to see the remaining space. Go to control panel > Administrative tools > then Computer management > then click storage and then disk management. It will show the partitions already setup and hopefully you will be able to see the remaining hard disk space that is unpartitioned. Just format and then your good

 

[H4x3r]

either one: get Sp2 or two: partition the rest of the space using Fdisk into another partition

 

[Nitestick]

i think we need to make a sticky thread about the 127gb barrier. there are WAY too many threads on this