Re: 120GB harddrive seen as 30GB PLEASE HELP

From: Jason Tsang (jason-onlineDEL_at_ETEmvps.org)
Date: 04/20/04 

Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 19:21:52 -0400

If you format it in Windows XP, then the max you'll ever get using FAT32 is
32 gigs.

Carey's provided links to those details...

Now, if you are trying to format it as NTFS, and it is still showing up as
32 gigs, then you have another problem.

Make sure your hard drive controller supports larger sized hard drives (>32
gigs).
Make sure you hard drive is jumpered properly (many hard drives have a
jumper configuration that limits the hard drive reported size to 32 gigs for
compatibility reasons (for hard drive controllers that don't support >32 gig
hard drives) 

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"john" <jk8946@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1d7d01c42726$96e902b0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> ive just been upgrading my PC with a new hard drive. ive
> installed an 80gb drive as a boot drive and a 120gb drive
> as a data drive. windows installed  perfectly but there
> was an old install of windows on the 120 and after trying
> to format the drive windows only formate 30gb of the
> drive? ive built my pc from the ground up a few years ago
> and have upgraded parts every year and every time any
> installation has gone perfectly. the installation is
> correct as ive had 2 hard drives for years. the 80's set
> to master and the 120 to slave and everything but it
> doesnt let me format the full 120 gigabytes?
> ive never had this problem before so does ANYONE have any
> idea whats happened? i really need your help as im
> stumped i cant think of anything else to do? thanks all

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