Recent content by fuzzycasserole

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    HD not showing correct size

    I called tech support, and got a fix! FOr those of you who were curious, it turns out that the Data Lifeguard utility sucks and changed the amount of data per sector, or something. Anyways, it works now, shows up as 192 gb! Thanks a lot for all your help guys!
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    HD not showing correct size

    Ok, so I've tried a few things, and it's still messed up. When I go to delete the partition in XP setup, it lets me. But then, it still only shows 32 gb of unpartitioned space... I've tried reformatting with the Data Lifeguard floppy too, and though it does reognize the full drive size...
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    HD not showing correct size

    I'm assuming there's no way to keep from deleting everything... oh well.
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    HD not showing correct size

    Thank you all for all of the helpful responses. I should have added that I know that it indeed is a 200 gb drive. When I was formatting it (via some bad, slow bootable floppy based util called Lifeguard), it said it was formatted as one 200 gb ntsf partition. However, because of different...
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    HD not showing correct size

    I recently put together my own computer. After a crapload of trial and mostly error, it's running spectacularly... except for one thing. The hard drive (Western Digital Caviar SE 200 GB, product number WD2000JB) is supposed to be 200 GB. However, it shows up as 32 GB. I formatted it as one...
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    HD Cables and XP Install Issues

    I've only tried the two cables (which appear identical, and should BOTH be 80-conductor according to the manual, as I said in the original post) that came with the ASUS motherboard. I would try more, but I don't have any. I think I will pick one up at a computer store though.
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    HD Cables and XP Install Issues

    I recently decided to build my own computer. These are the parts I used: Asus P5AD2-E Deluxe Mobo Pentium 4 550 (3.4 ghz) CPU 2 GB RAM Sapphire Radeon X800 GPU Creative Audigy 2 ZS Samsung Combo CDRW/DVD Drive Lite-ON DVDR Drive Western Digital Caviar SE 200 GB 7200 RPM HD After...