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  1. i have just recently installed a 160 gig hardrive on my pc

    it only recognizes 128 gigz

    is this normal

    plz respond

    thnks
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    I did the same for my computer; however, it only took about 3 gigs off the top.
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  3. HOW DO I FIX THIS........IF YOU DONT MIND ME ASKING

    YOUD BE OF GREAT HELP

    HEHE

    IM GOING NUTS TRYING TO FIGURE THIS OUT

    IF YOU COULD HELP ME THNX
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    for one thing, hard drives do not advertise their hard drives correctly. If its 160 gig its 160000Meg , which is 156gig. Now, windows 2000 and xp format the hard drives in ntfs, which uses more space. (moreso than fat32 in win98 and me). I noticed that you are using xp so thats your problem. Rule of thumb. the advertized size is only the UNFORMATTED size.
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    Yeah most of the above is true... but if it still seems like alot is missing make sure that your bios is up to date, and run a intence scandisk to check it for bad sectors and stuff...

    Likely what your getting is pretty normal tho'
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  6. Right click on the drive and select properties it should state what the capacity is in GB and also in bytes.

    For example the drive I am looking at is a 30GB drive and is shown as

    29,999,333,376 (this is where the manufacturer gets the 30GB from)

    27.9GB (this is the actual size in true GB)

    Seems like your missing some space 128GB seems way too low for a 160,000,000,000 byte drive.

    Liquid its not even 160,000 meg (not true mb where 1 mb=1024kb)
    Its 160,000,000,000 bytes.

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    craigtucker, your right, yea i remember now, its hard typing a post and doing other things at the same time.
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    Did the drive come with a formatting/partition utility disk? Or, can you download a utility from them?

    I have a drive once, where I was unable to format OR partition the drive correctly, until I made up an install disk (downloaded from their website, I think that's my Western Digital).

    And in a little over a minute, my drive was partitioned to the max it could hold (it's a 45GB drive, so it's like 42, 43 or so GB usable space).

    I've tried other utilities, like Norton Ghost... but this is often a crap shoot. Using that to try to partition/format my 60GB drive, it took me 4 tries for some reason (I/O error - read error - I/O error - worked). Often the proprietary disk startup utilities work best when you're starting fresh.
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    Originally Posted by liquid217
    craigtucker, your right, yea i remember now, its hard typing a post and doing other things at the same time.
    Exactly what else were you doing at the same time?



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    You might need either a MB BIOS update or a software update that you cna download from the HD manufacturer's site in order to use the whole capacity.
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    zzyzzx, its called work. Its kinda a cool little thing, they pay you money to sit at a desk and do stuff for them.
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