17-08-2004, 16:05
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200gb hard drive
Hi,
I have just purchased a 200 gb hard drive, but when I come to formatt it, it only shows up as a 131gb, any ideas 
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17-08-2004, 16:06
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Re: 200gb hard drive
Name/make/etc?
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17-08-2004, 16:08
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Re: 200gb hard drive
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Originally Posted by banjo
Hi,
I have just purchased a 200 gb hard drive, but when I come to formatt it, it only shows up as a 131gb, any ideas |
You havent really given us enough information to say.
What OS are you using?
What File System is on the Drive?
What mother board do you use?
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17-08-2004, 16:13
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Re: 200gb hard drive
Er, the drive is a Maxtor 200gb with 8mb of cache, it will be used as a slave drive on a Win XP Pro system, and I have tried to formatt this drive on 2 machines one of which is only a few months old, I only want format ie no operating system,
Thanks,
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17-08-2004, 16:18
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Re: 200gb hard drive
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Originally Posted by banjo
Er, the drive is a Maxtor 200gb with 8mb of cache, it will be used as a slave drive on a Win XP Pro system, and I have tried to formatt this drive on 2 machines one of which is only a few months old, I only want format ie no operating system,
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What file system did you format the drive with? if I remember right FAT32 has a limit of 130GB so that could be your problem.
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17-08-2004, 16:21
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Re: 200gb hard drive
Reformat it using NTFS if thats the case.
AFAIKR that has a limit of 4 tb ish.
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17-08-2004, 16:22
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Re: 200gb hard drive
Or split the drive in half - 100Gb either side.
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17-08-2004, 16:47
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Re: 200gb hard drive
Couldn't this be a 48-bit LBA issue?
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17-08-2004, 16:58
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Re: 200gb hard drive
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Originally Posted by banjo
Hi,
I have just purchased a 200 gb hard drive, but when I come to formatt it, it only shows up as a 131gb, any ideas |
Sounds like you have an older motherboard that is only capable of addressing 136 GB of HDD. Is your original HDD 4 or 5 GB?
You can fix this with a new PC, or buying a PCI IDE controller card and putting that in a free slot.
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17-08-2004, 17:13
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Re: 200gb hard drive
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Originally Posted by SMHarman
Sounds like you have an older motherboard that is only capable of addressing 136 GB of HDD. Is your original HDD 4 or 5 GB?
You can fix this with a new PC, or buying a PCI IDE controller card and putting that in a free slot.
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would the older machine succesfully run xp pro though 
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17-08-2004, 17:16
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Re: 200gb hard drive
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would the older machine succesfully run xp pro though |
Yeah Yeah, should have read the whole thread first. Thought I would chip in first as this is why I bought the 120 GB Maxtor, not bigger for my W98SE server type PC.
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17-08-2004, 17:23
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Re: 200gb hard drive
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Originally Posted by SMHarman
Yeah Yeah, should have read the whole thread first. Thought I would chip in first as this is why I bought the 120 GB Maxtor, not bigger for my W98SE server type PC.
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i might be wrong , it was just a thought 
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17-08-2004, 17:52
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Re: 200gb hard drive
Sorry, I have been struggling with a non working a/drive, will have to swap it with my son's machine ! I have not been able to format the drive but I have found a utility on the Maxtor web site that might, but I need my a:\ drive working so that I can make a boot disc, it never rain's but it poors
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17-08-2004, 18:59
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Re: 200gb hard drive
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Originally Posted by banjo
Sorry, I have been struggling with a non working a/drive, will have to swap it with my son's machine ! I have not been able to format the drive but I have found a utility on the Maxtor web site that might, but I need my a:\ drive working so that I can make a boot disc, it never rain's but it poors
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Why would you need a boot disk to format from Windows XP Pro?
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17-08-2004, 19:25
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Re: 200gb hard drive
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Originally Posted by ZrByte
Why would you need a boot disk to format from Windows XP Pro?
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Read the thread  the Maxtor utility comes on a floppy...
Although I happen to think this is BIOS related, try updating the BIOS (WITH CARE!) or checking the settings, put the IDE detection on Auto if you haven't already.
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