XP Recognizes 80 gig Hard drive as only 30 gigs HELP

Posted: 09-27-2003, 03:16 PM

Scotty

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When I installed my 80 gig western digital hard drive
it registers correctly until I instal windows xp. After
I start installing XP is only recognizes as 30 gigs.
Please help.

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OneMouseTooMany

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Re: XP Recognizes 80 gig Hard drive as only 30 gigs HELP

Posted: 09-27-2003, 05:49 PM

"Register correctly"? Define that please.
The BIOS may not be able to support a 80 GB hard drive.
Check that your BIOS is the latest version, and if not, get help on
updating it.

Scotty wrote:

> When I installed my 80 gig western digital hard drive
> it registers correctly until I instal windows xp. After
> I start installing XP is only recognizes as 30 gigs.
> Please help.

Cari $MS-MVP$

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Re: XP Recognizes 80 gig Hard drive as only 30 gigs HELP

Posted: 09-27-2003, 06:03 PM

Did you format it in NTFS or FAT32?

Cari
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"Scotty" <mrkoolgy1@aol.com> wrote in message
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> When I installed my 80 gig western digital hard drive
> it registers correctly until I instal windows xp. After
> I start installing XP is only recognizes as 30 gigs.
> Please help.

Jason Tsang

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Re: XP Recognizes 80 gig Hard drive as only 30 gigs HELP

Posted: 09-27-2003, 08:13 PM

Make sure you've jumpered it correctly. Some hard drives have a
compatibility jumper that limits reported hard drive size to 32 gigs due to
hard drive compatibility reasons.

Also check that your bios supports large hard drives. A bios update should
take care of that issue.

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"Scotty" <mrkoolgy1@aol.com> wrote in message
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> When I installed my 80 gig western digital hard drive
> it registers correctly until I instal windows xp. After
> I start installing XP is only recognizes as 30 gigs.
> Please help.

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