How do I get my computer to recognize the actual size of my hard drive?

[anonymouschris]

I have a Maxtor 160gb hard drive, but my computer only recognizes it to be a 120gb. What am I supposed to do to make it recognize the actual size of the hd?

 

[microAmp]

Is this in Windows or CMOS?

Try updating the CMOS.

 

[anonymouschris]

it is in windows. so i should go in the cmos and manually enter the size of the hd?

 

[nick1985]

maybe your mobo doesnt support that big of a HDD

 

[MikeMike]

flash the bios

 

[anonymouschris]

i have the most recent update for the bios.

 

[anonymouschris]

cmos recognizes the correct size of hd, but windows does not.

 

[Woody419]

Try this:

Boot into Safe Mode
Delete the hard drive(s) in the Device Manager
Shut down completely, wait 15 seconds
Windows will find it on the re-start.

 

[Afro000Dude]

Which windows version? You might have to partition it into 2 80-gig partitions, because older versions did not support drives larger than 137 gigs, if I'm not mistaken.

 

[NokiaDude]

Dood, if you're checking how big you HDD is in GIGABYTES in "My Computer" then you have to realize that it's not correct. Look at how big your HDD is in BYTES. It should say ~160,000,000,000

 

[Intelman07]

What os?....Xp is special where it doesn't care what the bios says.....it will see the whole thing. It did that on a few of my systems.