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 Posted: Wed, 8th Nov 2006 20:45 Post subject: All Hdd space. |
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A noob question then:
How do I make Windows recognize all of my hard disk space on my new 320 gb hdd? it only says I have 127 gb. I have SP2 installed (which is what i've red was supposed to do the trick
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[sYn]
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| Posted: Wed, 8th Nov 2006 20:52 Post subject: |
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Is the drive FAT32? If so, upgrade to NTFS..
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| Posted: Wed, 8th Nov 2006 20:54 Post subject: |
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| [sYn] wrote: | | Is the drive FAT32? If so, upgrade to NTFS.. |
Nope, it's NTFS
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| Posted: Wed, 8th Nov 2006 20:57 Post subject: |
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To enable EnableBigLba in the Windows registry, perform the following steps:
# Start a registry editor (e.g., regedit.exe). In Windows, click on Start->Run, enter "regedit".
# Navigate to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\atapi\Parameters registry subkey.
# From the Edit menu, select New, DWORD Value.
# Enter the name EnableBigLba, then press Enter.
# Double-click the new value, set it to 1, then click OK.
# Close the registry editor.
# Restart the machine for the change to take effect.
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http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B303013&x=10&y=3
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This article describes the Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 1 (SP1) 48-bit Logical Block Addressing (LBA) support for ATA Packet Interface (ATAPI) disk drives that can increase the capacity of your hard disk to more than the current 137 gigabyte (GB) limit.
although some people still need to do this after they installed sp2
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| Posted: Wed, 8th Nov 2006 21:05 Post subject: |
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| skidrow wrote: | To enable EnableBigLba in the Windows registry, perform the following steps:
# Start a registry editor (e.g., regedit.exe). In Windows, click on Start->Run, enter "regedit".
# Navigate to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\atapi\Parameters registry subkey.
# From the Edit menu, select New, DWORD Value.
# Enter the name EnableBigLba, then press Enter.
# Double-click the new value, set it to 1, then click OK.
# Close the registry editor.
# Restart the machine for the change to take effect.
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http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B303013&x=10&y=3
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This article describes the Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 1 (SP1) 48-bit Logical Block Addressing (LBA) support for ATA Packet Interface (ATAPI) disk drives that can increase the capacity of your hard disk to more than the current 137 gigabyte (GB) limit.
although some people still need to do this after they installed sp2 |
Thanks, though that didn't work 
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| Posted: Thu, 9th Nov 2006 10:30 Post subject: |
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Hard drive manufacturers lie about the capacity of the drives they make and sell. They define 1 Gigabyte as 1,000 Megabytes, but as we all know, 1 Gigabyte is 1,024 Megabytes. So a 320GB drive only actually stores 298GB formatted (dependant on cluster size chosen).
So what cluster size did you choose when you formatted the drive ? NTFS supports cluster sizes from 512 bytes through to 64K. 512 bytes being the most space saving (but slower accessing) to 64K (space eating but faster).
When your machine POST's, or in the BIOS itself, does it indicate that it recognises a 320GB drive? Have you flashed your motherboards BIOS to the latest version?
What method are you using to format the drive? Have you tried partitioning the drive?
Edit: If you right click My Computer choose Manage, under Storage, select Disk Management. Does your new drive show any Unallocated space?
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| Posted: Thu, 9th Nov 2006 14:01 Post subject: |
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| ManMountain wrote: | Hard drive manufacturers lie about the capacity of the drives they make and sell. They define 1 Gigabyte as 1,000 Megabytes, but as we all know, 1 Gigabyte is 1,024 Megabytes. So a 320GB drive only actually stores 298GB formatted (dependant on cluster size chosen).
So what cluster size did you choose when you formatted the drive ? NTFS supports cluster sizes from 512 bytes through to 64K. 512 bytes being the most space saving (but slower accessing) to 64K (space eating but faster).
When your machine POST's, or in the BIOS itself, does it indicate that it recognises a 320GB drive? Have you flashed your motherboards BIOS to the latest version?
What method are you using to format the drive? Have you tried partitioning the drive?
Edit: If you right click My Computer choose Manage, under Storage, select Disk Management. Does your new drive show any Unallocated space? |
Yes, it shows 170 gb of unallocated space. The rest of your post didn't seem to be english though
Edit: yes, my BIOS are the latest version, 1016 Nvidia chipset.
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| Posted: Thu, 9th Nov 2006 16:33 Post subject: |
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Right click the Unallocated space and create a new partition. It's not ideal but at least you will have your 298GB of space.
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| Posted: Thu, 9th Nov 2006 20:03 Post subject: |
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great  and no problem ;p
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