Re: HD shows true size in BIOS, but not in Windows
- From: "jaf" <me@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 11:42:01 -0500
As with all HD's there is a difference between the stated size (unformatted) and the formatted size.
John
"Jago" <guest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1f11eb3d2accc5fbdda1669269f6bfa7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Yesterday I put together a new system, and the hard drive shows its true
size (250GB) in the bios, however during the windows vista 64bit
installation the hard drive says its only 232 GB.
I then exited the installtion and restarted. It still said it was
232GB. I continued on with the installation hoping to see if it would
change once Windows was installed with all the drivers. I paritioned the
drive so that windows would be 50GB and the rest of the drive would be
for whatever i wanted and i would split it up later. I proceeded to
format the remainder of the hard drive before i went on to install
windows, and it stayed there for a while and then i realised it locked
up and i got a BSOD.
I reset the computer, and went on to install windows and i didnt bother
to format the remainder of the hard drive. Windows installed without any
problems, but when i get to windows, the drive still shows as 232GB.
I ran a memory test from a Kubuntu CD and its not the ram.
anyone has any ideas of what may be going on or what i haven't done?
HD is a Maxtor 250GB SATA
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Jago
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