something is wrong with my hdd ... about 75GB of space is MISSING!!

[Maverick2002]

This is just plain weird. I'm using a 200GB Seagate hard drive. When I first deleted partitions using WinXP install CD it said the drive only had 131GB of usable space on it. BS. So I hooked it up to another working computer and went through Windows' computer management and deleted the current partition and did a quick format. That gave me about 186GB of space (which is about right for a 200GB drive). So I install WinXP on it. Now that everything is up and running, Windows tells me the drive IS 186GB, but only 111GB are free. I have almost nothing installed on this machine and all of my files currently added up only total about 10GB. Where are the other 60-70-some GB?????

 

[Simplicity]

gigibyte != gigabyte

it is windows fault, but that is all you have.

 

[Maverick2002]

Windows fault? Exactly what fault would that be? It makes not sense; I mean the space shows up in Windows, it just tells me it's full with God knows what.

 

[Simplicity]

I am sure you would get a different result running through Linux.

If not, then I am thinking of the wrong problem.

My thought are that windows labels everything with GIGA, while drive manufacturers use GIGI

 

[Maverick2002]

It's probably not the same problem. I mean I know a 250GB drive for instance won't format to 250GB (it might be something like 220GB), but this 200GB drive actually formatted to 186GB. It just tells me that out of the 186GB, only 111GB are free. I'm wondering where the other 75GB went.

 

[Simplicity]

Maybe you have ants in your HD

 

[Bozo Galora]

thats the 137GB limit
you need XP1 and make sure 48 bit LBA is enabled in registry
some chipsets - like intel 875-865 ICH5 do not natively support 48 bit addressing so you need to load IAA

http://support.intel.com/suppo...s/iaa/sb/CS-009299.htm

Edit: and if your bios doesnt support 48 bit - you will need to put a drive overlay on HDD - 48 bit bios spoofer that gets you past post into O/s control

 

[Maverick2002]

I'm using an AMD board. Here's my setup:

AXP 1700+ JIUHB DLT3C 1.5v (11x133 = 1466mhz) @ 11x166 (1833mhz) 1.5v
Biostar M7NCG nForce2 motherboard
2x512MB PC3200 Kingston ValueRAM DDR400
Hercules GeForce3 GTS
Onboard audio and LAN
Seagate 200GB HDD
Pioneer DVR-108 16X DVD burner

What's XP1 and how do I enable LBA in the registry? Do you mean SP1? I'm using SP2.

EDIT: or do I have to have SP1 (or later) installed before I install Windows? (i.e. I have to make a slipstreamed disk with SP2 support)

 

[Googer]

LBA Is enabled in your bios, not the registry.

 

[Maverick2002]

Ok so I went into my BIOS and enabled LBA (the other options for "Auto" and "Large"). Nothing changes though.

 

[Maverick2002]

.... anyone?

 

[imported_Kiwi]

If all else fails, repartition it into a pair of 90-something logical drives (allowing for however much the difference between 1000 Kb's per Mb, 1,000 MB'S per gb, versus the actual way computers measure storage reduces the "200" advertised Gb's to).


:beer:

 

[Jeffyboy]

What motherboard do you have?

 

[thirdlegstump]

Yet another Windoze problem. Pop it in any Macs and bam. Done.

 

[Maverick2002]

... I just said earlier: Biostar M7NCG (nForce2). So no one can help ...

 

[Googer]

Originally posted by: Maverick2002
Ok so I went into my BIOS and enabled LBA (the other options for "Auto" and "Large"). Nothing changes though.

Set it to auto and reformat the hard drive.

 

[Googer]

Originally posted by: Maverick2002
... I just said earlier: Biostar M7NCG (nForce2). So no one can help ...

Please be patient, we all have a life to live and when I get time I will help you.

:beer:

 

[Googer]

What bios version are you using?

 

[Maverick2002]

When I first formatted the drive it was set to auto, so I don't think that has anything to do with it.

 

[Googer]

Originally posted by: Maverick2002
When I first formatted the drive it was set to auto, so I don't think that has anything to do with it.

What bios version are you using?

 

[Googer]

Originally posted by: Googer

Originally posted by: Maverick2002
When I first formatted the drive it was set to auto, so I don't think that has anything to do with it.

What bios version are you using?

Download the latest bios for your mother board, It was realeased in november of 2004
http://www.biostar.com.tw/supp.../bios.php3?model=M7NCG

 

[Maverick2002]

BIOS Vendor Phoenix Technologies, LTD
BIOS Version 6.00 PG
BIOS Release Date 03/25/2003


What effect would that have though?

Also, apparently this also happens with my Abit IS7-E (i865PE chipset) because there I have a 160GB Maxtor drive but it only formats to 127GB, with 24GB being left over as "unallocated". WTF!!! Tell me this doesn't happen with all drives over 137GB .... do I need to make a WinXP cd with SP1 or SP2 slipstreamed or something so that every time I reformat it will format properly?

 

[DerKaiser]

Have you installed WinXP Service pack 1? WinXP without either service pack 1 will only see 131 Gb of your hard drive. After you install the service pack 1, all will be seen. However, it will just show up as unallocated space using the system management tools (can't remember how to access as I'm not sitting at a WinXP box at the moment).

This may help:
http://support.microsoft.com/d...x?scid=kb;en-us;303013

 

[DerKaiser]

Slipstreaming WinXP with SP 1 or 2 will be the fix in case you ever need to reformat. You can format that unallocated space by the way by first creating a partition in that space and then formatting it. It will show up as another lettered drive if you do so. After installing SP1 you can extend partitions into adjacent unallocated space, however the Windows tool will not do this on the boot drive.

 

[Bozo Galora]

Originally posted by: Googer
LBA Is enabled in your bios, not the registry.

Little tip from me:
If you dont know what you are talking about, you shouldn't say anything


http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=303013