Author Topic: HD problem part deux (Read 245 times)

Glasses · « **on:** January 21, 2005, 06:06:38 PM »

Well I just receive a new 250gb WD hard drive 7200RPM ATA 100 EIDE from mwave, but lo and behold when I get to Winchows setup it only sees 131Gigs worth? ,though the bios posts as a 250GB HD ATA 100.

CXould it be the bios or something else? the HD is a 250GB says it both on post and the lil sticker and my receipt so?

What's up?

Using an Epox 8rda+

Again thanks all

StarOfAfrica2 · « **Reply #1 on:** January 21, 2005, 08:02:34 PM »

Not partitioned is it?

Glasses · « **Reply #2 on:** January 21, 2005, 10:44:22 PM »

partition it is

read instructions through the darned WD proggie says after I installed Sp1 I would need to fix something in the registry for it to show the complete capacity of the drive

Roscoroo · « **Reply #3 on:** January 22, 2005, 02:42:51 AM »

what operating system ??? xp, 98, 2k

for 98se 32gb primary partition is optimal but ive gone as large as 38 gb's with 98 and i get away with 40-50 gb secondary partitions. with a secondary drive ive had to split 80 gb's and larger into 2 or more partitions .

with xp I myself havent used a hard drive larger then 80gb so i havent found the format / size thresh hold yet ... or if it even has one

now if your just in the setup part of windows and you partitioned that hd then it may be only seeing that primary partition at this time ... WD hard drive can be tempermental when trying to format/partition .. (trick of the trade use a maxtor partition disk ... it works everytime)

eagl · « **Reply #4 on:** January 22, 2005, 03:26:03 AM »

seagate mentions on their web site that there is a windows registry switch that needs to be set for winXP to see more than 130 gig of hard drive. They have a little utility that checks the registry and sets the flag if it's not already set.

I think winXP SP2 sets it by default, but I'm not sure. I just got a 200 gig drive and ran the little utility just in case.

Glasses · « **Reply #5 on:** January 22, 2005, 12:30:04 PM »

Yeah I have Win XP as of now installed without the sp1 so it would mean the OS won't see my full capacity just yet,up until I do either one of those two things,however will the seagate utility work with my WD HD and allow windows to see the rest of it even if my HD is partioned and formatted?