- 160GB hard drive reads 127GB? SP4 Does not help?
- Posted by lbbss on March 8th, 2005
I was told to that getting sp4 for win2k will fix the problem. This is
what I did. I made a slipstream cd with win2k sp4. Deleted my second
Partition that was 81gb and repartition and formatted with this sp4 bootable
CD. But for some reason, I still just have 81GB capacity. Do I need to
delete both partitions?
My cmos shows 160GB, but I set the hard drive from Auto to LBA just to
make sure. Anyone know what the problem could be? Thanks
- Posted by Emrys Davies on March 8th, 2005
"lbbss" <df@er454545.net> wrote in message
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I think that this site will explain it to your satisfaction:
http://tinyurl.com/7xfqr
Regards,
Emrys Davies.
- Posted by us10610 on March 8th, 2005
Check the Disk Administrator, It will show the physical disk attribute
rather than the partition information. If the bios is seeing 160GB then
W2K should see it as well.
I'm guessing Disk Admin will show 1 physical drive at 160GB with 1 or
more partions.
When you go through the setup you should be able delete all current
partions (it should show you the size of the drive too) and use the
entire drive as 1 big partition.
Good luck....
Emrys Davies wrote:
- Posted by baaa on March 8th, 2005
Yes, I realize that there are different ways of counting MB (binary system)
but a 160GB hard drive should read 147gb total, but mine reads 131gb total
when formating for windows.
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- Posted by Kan Taira on March 8th, 2005
Vanguard <use_ReplyTo@domain.invalid> wrote:
- Posted by baaa on March 8th, 2005
I have pretty much done that by deleting one of my partitions and starting
from scratch. I technically should go from 81GB to something like 89GB.
But it did not make a difference.
- Posted by baaa on March 8th, 2005
How can you delete partitions in windows, when you are using windows?
You can't delete an operating system while deleting it, as far as I know.
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- Posted by Ben Myers on March 9th, 2005
See if this is helpful.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/305098/EN-US
Ben
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