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Installed 160 GB harddrive...

I'll shoot out in left field and say that it's probably in FAT32 or FAT mode, which only supports upwards of 127 GB capacity HDDs. Convert to NTFS I believe. Not sure though.
 
Nope, I have it formatted in NTFS. I'm reformatting it to see if that helps at all, but I don't think it will. I saw the similar thread that talked about adjusting the BIOS settins, so I'll check on those after it formats.
 
Do you have SP2 installed? If you don't have SP2 installed it won't recognize the other 30+ gigs until you install it.
 
windows takes 12% for system restore
pro does by default anyway...12% works out to be 19.2GB for you, but its taking 32
formatting takes very little space
 
Originally posted by: ShadowBlade
windows takes 12% for system restore
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He'd still get like 148 or some odd number like that. I know because I've installed two 160GB hard drives in computers without SP2 and both were at or around the 130gb mark. After SP2 it went up, you could only find it in local disk management though.
 
Originally posted by: Nocturnal
Do you have SP2 installed? If you don't have SP2 installed it won't recognize the other 30+ gigs until you install it.
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I don't have it installed, but I will do that now. After I install SP2, will it automatically recognize the other 30 GB, or do I need to reformat then? Thanks a lot!
 
Originally posted by: whatever
ATA100 has a limit of 128GB, which sounds like your problem. you need a new hdd controller.
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Sorry, I don't know what that all means. I don't know too much about computer hardware.
 
Install SP2. Then, after the installation and reboot is done, right click on My Computer, go to Manage, then go to Storage and then Local Disk Management. You'll see an unpartition space there. You'll have to right click and create a partition of the left over space and then format it.
 
Originally posted by: marcello
Originally posted by: whatever
ATA100 has a limit of 128GB, which sounds like your problem. you need a new hdd controller.
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Sorry, I don't know what that all means. I don't know too much about computer hardware.
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It doesn't matter cause that statement is not true :roll:
 
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