Wrong HDD size

[louie1487]

I have a samsung sv8004h hard drive as a slave and when i tried to open it, it said i needed to format it, so i did, but it only gave a capacity of 31.4 GB and the hard drive is 80GB. What do I need to do?

 

[ski]

Did you partition it?

 

[cdogg]

If you are using XP, format it in NTFS to see the full capacity. If you need FAT32 for some reason, use a Win98 boot disk to format it. XP is limited in partition size when creating with FAT32.

~cdogg
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[wolluf]

If its not a fat32 issue....

How old is your machine? Is the primary drive larger than 32GB? I ask, as older bioses have a limitation of 32GB on size of drive they can access.

Or - is the drive jumpered correctly - some have a limiting jumper for backward compatibility with said older bioses, which restrict drive size to 32GB.

 

[cdogg]

I agree with wolluf. Here's a link to Microsoft about the FAT32 issue that I forgot to include in my last post:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q314463

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~cdogg
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