- Windows shows the wrong hard drive capacity
- Posted by Nathan Salas on December 14th, 2005
Hi I purchased a 180gb hd and windows displays it as a 150 only, I know that
there is a way to get the computer to recoginize the other 30 gigs. I forgot
how though. Please point me in the right direction 
I am running windows xp home
thanks in advance
- Posted by Bob Headrick on December 14th, 2005
"Nathan Salas" <NathanSalas@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi I purchased a 180gb hd and windows displays it as a 150 only, I know that
> there is a way to get the computer to recoginize the other 30 gigs. I forgot
> how though. Please point me in the right direction
> I am running windows xp home
I do not know about a 150Gb limit. There is a limit at 137Gb as well as number
of lower limits. See
http://www.dewassoc.com/kbase/hard_d...e_barriers.htm for
limits and workarounds.
Regards,
Bob Headrick
- Posted by Gerry Cornell on December 14th, 2005
Nathan
Has the drive been partitioned?
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"Nathan Salas" <NathanSalas@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi I purchased a 180gb hd and windows displays it as a 150 only, I know
> that
> there is a way to get the computer to recoginize the other 30 gigs. I
> forgot
> how though. Please point me in the right direction
> I am running windows xp home
> thanks in advance
- Posted by Shenan Stanley on December 14th, 2005
Nathan Salas wrote:
> Hi I purchased a 180gb hd and windows displays it as a 150 only, I
> know that there is a way to get the computer to recoginize the
> other 30 gigs. I forgot how though. Please point me in the right
> direction
> I am running windows xp home
Advertised --- Actual Capacity
10GB --- 9.31 GB
20GB --- 18.63 GB
30GB --- 27.94 GB
40GB --- 37.25 GB
60GB --- 55.88 GB
80GB --- 74.51 GB
100GB --- 93.13 GB
120GB --- 111.76 GB
160GB --- 149.01 GB
180GB --- 167.64 GB
200GB --- 186.26 GB
250GB --- 232.83 GB
Now - you should get more than 150GB.. How is it partitioned?
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