Got a 160GB Western Digital. Pluged it up. Started up WinXP SP2 and it sees it as 32GB NTFS. WTF? If I boot up with the CD that came with the HD, it recognizes 137GB NTFS. WTF? How can I get the other 15 or so GBs?
The computer is a HP Pavillion 503w. The 160GB HD is being used as a slave. The master drive is something like 40GB and split into two partitions. The nonbackup partition is about 32GB.
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Anonymous2006-05-12 1:20
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It has WindowsXP Service Pack 2 so it shouldn't have the 137GB limit.
It was purchased after 1999, I would think the BIOS are suitable for >137GB.
Even ran a BIOS update from 2003.
Additional info: C: is NTFS, but D: is FAT 32. Again C: and D: are partitions on the same HD.
You see 137 GB and that's probably what's actually available for you to use. Part of the space is spent when formatting and installing a filesystem (this is unavoidable), and know that companies totally lie about their capacity. It's not 160 GB, it's some number which rounds to 160 billion of bytes. 160 GB = 1024³, not 1000³, and your HD probably doesn't even contain 1000³ bytes unformatted.
Oh, wait, don't tell me this 137 "GB" are in gaybytes instead of GB. In this case you fail miserably; what you're getting is 128 GB actually, and then you Google for BIOS 128GB.
Sure, if you count Bytes that way you can get close to 160 gaybytes, but if you want to sound/be serious, you must know 1 GB = 1024³ (as opposed to 1 gaybyte which equals to one billion).