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    help please guys Hdd prob

    i have just got a HDD 160gig
    i went to bootdisk dot com for a disk and partitioned the drive then formatted now win xp pro is telling me the drive is only 127 gig what am i doing wrong guys
    please help as this is doing my head in lol

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    just updated my bio's but that wasn't the prob in bio's it reads 160 gig but if i put it as master and try and partition it tell's me 131 gig?????

    can anyone help please????

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    • malfunction's system
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    What are you using to partition the disk? Might be that the program is the problem.

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    i was just booting from cdrom and using my win xp pro cd
    can you recommend a prog to do it m8?
    thanx pat

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    • malfunction's system
      • Motherboard:
      • Gigabyte G1.Sniper (with daft heatsinks and annoying Killer NIC)
      • CPU:
      • Xeon X5670 (6 core LGA 1366) @ 4.4GHz
      • Memory:
      • 48GB DDR3 1600 (6 * 8GB)
      • Storage:
      • 1TB 840 Evo + 1TB 850 Evo
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      • Cooltek W2
      • Operating System:
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    IIRC XP Pro should be able to cope with it - might still be the BIOS then . Try clearing the BIOS values and letting it re-detect the HDD... XP / NTFS should be able to create a partition up to 2TB (2000GB) and more (depending on various bits and bobs)... Maybe the installer / the IDE driver it's using has a smaller limit. Were you trying to create a single partition from the whole drive or multiple partitions? If you've just upgraded and still have your old drive try partitioning and formatting from Windows instead.

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    IIRC XP Pro
    ????

    i have already cleared cmos if thats what you mean i have update my bio's to the latest one's i am running a abit NF7 v2.0 so it wont be that
    i have re detected the hdd and in the bio's it see's it as a 160 gig but when i boot from cd rom and tell win xp cd to parttition it it tells me i can parttion 131gig only???
    and i need the drive as one unit not lots of partitions

    how can i parttition and format from windows? as i am keeping my mian drive as my boot drive
    i didn't know you could parttition and format from windows as the drive dont even show up??????

    thanx again for the help

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    • malfunction's system
      • Motherboard:
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      • CPU:
      • Xeon X5670 (6 core LGA 1366) @ 4.4GHz
      • Memory:
      • 48GB DDR3 1600 (6 * 8GB)
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      • 1TB 840 Evo + 1TB 850 Evo
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    It won't show up in explorer unless it's partitioned but if you got to "Control Panel", then "Administrative Tools", then "Computer Management" select "Storage" and finally "Disk Management" you should see the drive and be able to partition and format it (right click on the drive for the various options)

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    cheers m8ty bit late now so i will try that in the morning and get back to you about it m8

    thanx pat

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