SATA Free Space Errors? (Urgent Help)

Hi guys I have just put together my new machine with a WD 250GB SATA HD. The problem is that My Computer only shows it as 127GB.

I have installed SP1 and all the updates.

How can I fix this????

googled your problem and came up with :

http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/dow...ve_enabler.htm

Hope this helps

I have got a western Digital HD but tried that with no luck. I have used the software on the WD site and it still does not work. In my BIOS it reads the drive as 250GB.

Bloody Windows.

Go to your control panel -> Admin Tools -> Computer management.

Click on Storage -> Disk Management

I highly suspect that you'll find a huge partition that has not been formated. Do that are you are set.

Ah fantastic, there it is a nice 100GB partition.

Thanks for your help.

No prob. This problem also puzzled me for a while :D

Now if anyone could tell me why I need to reboot my computer every time in order to refresh the CD/DVD labels....

why does it do this? some dodgy windows flaw??

Until you install SP1 and the updates windows can't see it all - so you may have partitioned it before it could see it all, hence the space deficit.