Name: Anonymous 2005-12-17 10:36
I am having a hard drive problem. I bought this 300GB Seagate hard drive off of Tiger Direct the other day, and I installed it in my brand new computer. The problem is, W2K was only able to format 127GB of this. After some reasearch, I found that W2K SP1 only understood the first 127GB of a hard drive, so I upgraded it to SP4 (It was newly installed). After that, the logical disk manager still only saw the 127 that had been formatted. So I did some more research, and I found that the Seagate website had a program that could partition the rest. Unfortunately, I did not pay attention to the details and downloaded the one that is meant to install on blank hard drives. So after screwing up my hard drive, I decided to reinstall W2K and start over. However, this time around it only saw 32GB. I'm worried I may have messed up the hard drive in some way. Currently it is formatting the 32GB that it sees, and I'm hoping that I will be able to format the rest. My BIOS does see that it is a 300GB hard drive, and my motherboard is a Mach Speed K8M8MS that supports ATA133 (It is IDE). Can anyone help me with what is going on?