Hi all
This may sound a bit dense but I cant see the full amount of size in my new SATA 2 drive , It's a 200Gb Maxtor , It gives me the total size in the setup screen (by pressing DEL before win2000 starts up ) but only shows 121 Gb in Explorer , & also it only formatted to 121 Gb from initial format/setup, apparently my motherboard is jumperless , so no dip switchs/jumpers to set ( also it knows the total size as described previously)any ideas ??
cheers Col
121GiB is low. It should hav
121GiB is low. It should have formated out somewhere around 186GiB. Your 200GB is really only a ~186GiB drive. Drive manufactures use decimal prefixes because it makes the numbers look bigger. Computers use binary prefixes, well, because its a bianary machine. For a good explination check:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix
check your bios to make sure it isnt 'cutting' the drive down to a 130GB visiable drive. Some old Mobos had that option.
http://www.techspot.com/vb/all/windows/t-38258-Maxtor-200-gb-harddrive-p...
http://www.ntcompatible.com/thread27313-1.html
http://www.ntcompatible.com/thread24802-1.html
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cooper
depending on a Windows system, one needs a SP
Depending on a Windows system, one needs a service pack to pass the ~128 GB hard disk size.