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Posted by Steve on December 21, 2005, 12:00 pm
Please log in for more thread options into two 40G drives. When I put the hard drive into another computer, it can only see 31G. Can someone please help me find the rest of my HDD. Have tried Disk Management in the Computer Management. Thanks | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Smith on December 21, 2005, 12:04 pm
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Posted by Sjouke Burry on December 21, 2005, 12:46 pm
Please log in for more thread options Smith wrote:
> http://www.dewassoc.com/kbase/hard_drives/hard_drive_size_barriers.htm
> > >>I have an 80G HDD that ive taken from another computer. It was partitioned
>>into two 40G drives. >>When I put the hard drive into another computer, it can only see 31G. Can >>someone please help me find the rest of my HDD. >>Have tried Disk Management in the Computer Management. >>Thanks >> >
Your bios does not recognize more than 32 Gb .I had one at work
> > like that, and at home an even older one stopping at 8GB,when I got new disks for 2 of those,the smallest ones i could get ,was 20 GB,so even now 12GB (on four disks) goes unused .Well... for 2 old dos computers even 8GB is an awfull lot -)-)-) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by kony on December 21, 2005, 3:13 pm
Please log in for more thread options On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 18:46:42 +0100, Sjouke Burry
>Smith wrote:
>> http://www.dewassoc.com/kbase/hard_drives/hard_drive_size_barriers.htm
>> >> >>>I have an 80G HDD that ive taken from another computer. It was partitioned
>>>into two 40G drives. >>>When I put the hard drive into another computer, it can only see 31G. Can >>>someone please help me find the rest of my HDD. >>>Have tried Disk Management in the Computer Management. >>>Thanks >>> >>
>> >> >Your bios does not recognize more than 32 Gb .I had one at work
>like that, and at home an even older one stopping at 8GB,when I >got new disks for 2 of those,the smallest ones i could get ,was >20 GB,so even now 12GB (on four disks) goes unused .Well... >for 2 old dos computers even 8GB is an awfull lot -)-)-) Either that, or when the drive was moved to new system the jumpers were changed and one jumper was mistakenly put on the capcacity limit pins- which would also force the smaller size reported. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by DaveW on December 21, 2005, 7:02 pm
Please log in for more thread options You didn't give any technical details about the computer that only sees 31
GB of the harddrive. My assumption is that it is an older computer and that it's motherboard's BIOS can only recognize harddrives up to 32 GB in size. To change this you would have to find a BIOS upgrade for that specific motherboard that would allow the use of larger harddrives. -- DaveW ---------------- >I have an 80G HDD that ive taken from another computer. It was partitioned
>into two 40G drives. > When I put the hard drive into another computer, it can only see 31G. Can > someone please help me find the rest of my HDD. > Have tried Disk Management in the Computer Management. > Thanks > | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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>into two 40G drives.
> When I put the hard drive into another computer, it can only see 31G. Can
> someone please help me find the rest of my HDD.
> Have tried Disk Management in the Computer Management.
> Thanks
>