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    OK my set up is this, I have an AI7 with a WD Raptor on one sata cable and two dvd burners on each IDE channel. My issue is that I had a "spare" HD at 80GB capacity, and last night I hooked it up to one of the IDE channels and after only a couple times of switching the jumper I got it to show up in BIOS and windows. Once in windows I formatted it since it had a copy of windows on it plus some other stuff (games etc) from before as it was my primary HD at one point.
    Now this is where is becomes strange. It was an 80GB maxtor but now it shows up as 31.4 GB and this is still after I formatted IN windows and I also did a format using the windows install disc (maybe that dumb but that the only other way I know how to do it).
    Anyway its still only showing as 31GB. Can anyone help me get back my other 50 GB????
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    To format a secondary drive in windows, you right click the drive and select format.

    There is nothing else to it.

    Did you install multiple partitions?

    You may want to do a full format of the drive again and see if it does the same thing.

    Computers are psychotic. You could do the same thing and get different results.
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    ya I did format it, twice like I said, and it still says that its 30GB. It HAD only one partition when I was using it for my main (and only at the time ) HD.
    EDIT: It also says in bios that the capacityis 80 GB so...hmmmm
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  4. If the partition is FAT32 -- try deleting and recreating as an NTFS partition. Not sure about "Home", but XP has a FAT32 partition size limit of approx 32GB when XP is used to create the partition.

    I you want a FAT32 partition larger than 32GB, then you'll have to use a Win98 boot disk and use fdisk to create the FAT32 partition. Then XP should see a full disk w/ FAT32.
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    try using the maxtor utility program to test the drive and then use it to format the drive again. i would unhook your WD raptor from your pc when using the maxtor utility program.
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    I cant use the maxtor program because
    A: its for single drive PC set ups only and,
    B: if I unhook the raptor, well, thats got my OS on it right, the maxtor was a storage drive, so I couldnt even run the utility if I wanted to.

    EDIT: I fixed it by deleting an unallocated partition and deleting the main partition and making a new one using the space from both.
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    Originally Posted by bazooka
    To format a secondary drive in windows, you right click the drive and select format.

    There is nothing else to it.
    Actually under administrative tools>computer management>disk managment> theres a whole whack of options to care for your HD.
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    mattyboy wrote
    I cant use the maxtor program because
    A: its for single drive PC set ups only and,
    B: if I unhook the raptor, well, thats got my OS on it right, the maxtor was a storage drive, so I couldnt even run the utility if I wanted to.

    EDIT: I fixed it by deleting an unallocated partition and deleting the main partition and making a new one using the space from both.
    I've used the maxtor utility many times and it is not for single drive pcs. I have 3 hard drives in each of my pcs. I suggested you unhook your raptor drive so that way it would be safe that you don't lose any data. All you needed to do was use the utility via on a floppy disc and boot the pc to the floppy and let maxtor's utility do its thing. Windows does not need to be booted up for the maxtor utility to work. But it's ok you figured it out on your own. I just wanted to correct you that the maxtor utility is not for single drive pcs.
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  9. you could try the system rescue cd... it has a program called qtparted that you could try (just use run_qtparted):
    www.sysresccd.org
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    It wouldnt let me install it because it said it was only for "single HD drive" PCs Ive never used it so I wouldnt know that, Im just quoting what it told me when I tried to install it.
    Its fixed now anyway ( my edit in my post above) thanks for your help!!
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    Originally Posted by mattyboy
    Originally Posted by bazooka
    To format a secondary drive in windows, you right click the drive and select format.

    There is nothing else to it.
    Actually under administrative tools>computer management>disk managment> theres a whole whack of options to care for your HD.
    Yes, but I listed just one of the ways.
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