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200gb shows as 137gb
on: July 03, 2008, 00:08:29 AM
Alright ladies and clever people, age old problem with a new twist.

Ive got a Western Digital 200GB ATA hard drive, that has been sat for a while in my desktop and ive never really paid much attention to it.
Took the dead HDD out of an old Maxtor Onetouch enclosure and discovered my HDD shows as 137gb. Odd I know, id have understood if I was running XP with no service packs like back in the day but it shows as such on my OpenSUSE11 laptop and my SP3 XP machine.

Anyone got any ideas as to how to make it show its full capacity?
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  • Offline Beaker

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Re:200gb shows as 137gb
Reply #1 on: July 03, 2008, 00:11:35 AM
any hidden partitions?
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Re:200gb shows as 137gb
Reply #2 on: July 03, 2008, 00:12:02 AM
Was it originally formatted on an old machine that had a hard drive size limitation built in to the bios, or something, and so didnt format correctly... if that makes sense?


Dave.
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Re:200gb shows as 137gb
Reply #3 on: July 03, 2008, 00:14:08 AM
nope, been formatted in a new PC.  Shouldnt really make a difference as ive taken all the partitions off it so its completely empty.
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Re:200gb shows as 137gb
Reply #4 on: July 03, 2008, 00:27:36 AM
*slaps forehead*

LBA Limit.  I vaguely remember this from back in the day.   My Computer>Manage>Logical Disk Controller
Then create your partitions.  Im assuming your rig isnt too old.  If you cant force it, then do multiple partitions at less than 137Gb each.  
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