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MedioCore

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This may or may not be a dumb question, so fire away...

I just installed my new Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 250GB SATA HDD. For some reason it's showing up as only being a 127GB HDD. Any rhyme or reason behind this? Is this normal?

I'm running an AMD 3200+ Venice on an MSI K8N Neo4 nForce4 Platinum board and the HDD is plugged into SATA 1.

TIA.
 
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MedioCore

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Also, the HDD is showing up as Removable Storage (i.e., the Safely Remove Hardware icon is in my System Tray). Any reason for this?

Thanks again!
 
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Promethply

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Originally posted by: MedioCore
This may or may not be a dumb question, so fire away...

I just installed my new Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 250GB SATA HDD. For some reason it's showing up as only being a 127GB HDD. Any rhyme or reason behind this? Is this normal?

I'm running an AMD 3200+ Venice on an MSI K8N Neo4 nForce4 Platinum board and the HDD is plugged into SATA 1.

TIA.
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You can fix that by trying these steps:

Control Panel-->Administrative Tools-->Computer Management-->Disk Management-->right click on the unpartitioned/unformatted space, and create extended partition(s).

Hope that helps :)





 
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Promethply

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Originally posted by: MedioCore
Also, the HDD is showing up as Removable Storage (i.e., the Safely Remove Hardware icon is in my System Tray). Any reason for this?

Thanks again!
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It's normal for WinXP to show SATA drives as removable Storage.

 
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MedioCore

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Originally posted by: krnxpride83
make sure to have SP2 installed on ur window..
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SP2 is now installed and everything looks the same. Anything special I need to do?
 
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