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Hard Disk Problem.. Can Anyone Help?
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QUOTE(Stiffmyster @ Sep 11 2006, 01:24 PM) [snapback]61840[/snapback]
Thanks sushubh installed another version of XP with SP2
Problem solved
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The reason is that SP2 has LBA-48 accesss, basically a workaround to see drives bigger than 128GB.
Pre-SP2 is LBA-32.
I installed 3x250GB drives in my 5yr-old P3. Even the BIOS does not see the full size, so i just set it to auto-detect and let windows do the magic.
Thanks sushubh installed another version of XP with SP2
Problem solved
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The reason is that SP2 has LBA-48 accesss, basically a workaround to see drives bigger than 128GB.
Pre-SP2 is LBA-32.
I installed 3x250GB drives in my 5yr-old P3. Even the BIOS does not see the full size, so i just set it to auto-detect and let windows do the magic.
QUOTE(Stiffmyster @ Sep 11 2006, 01:37 AM) [snapback]61800[/snapback]
Recently i got a 200 gb Seagate 7200.10 Harddisk from Lamington road for 3500bucks.
I initially formatted it on my friends PC. Also copied a few softwares from his drive. After using it on my pc i noticed that the the windows installation went through easily but after that i cudnt read any files from the Hard disk properly. So i repartitioned on my PC again but after that i recognized that my motherboard didnt show the hard disk space. It shows only 150 gb instead of 185gb(15gb less u get in 200gb, u dont get the whole space anyways). Also after countless efforts of partitioning my HDD still i get the same problem.
Can anyone help ? any kind of suggestion is surely welcome..
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Just a little clarification so far as hard disk capacity goes.. Its kinda funny though but the hard disks follow a different (metric) formula for counting kilo-mega-giga etc i.e. 1000bytes=1 KB, 1000KB=1 MB and so on. Whereas the cyberworld uses 1024bytes=1KB, 1024KB=1MB. This reduction of 24 bytes per KB leads to about 14 GB (13.73548508 GB to be precise ;-) ) loss in 200 GB HDD. so thats y u dont get whole space. and higher you go, more is the (percieved) loss..
Recently i got a 200 gb Seagate 7200.10 Harddisk from Lamington road for 3500bucks.
I initially formatted it on my friends PC. Also copied a few softwares from his drive. After using it on my pc i noticed that the the windows installation went through easily but after that i cudnt read any files from the Hard disk properly. So i repartitioned on my PC again but after that i recognized that my motherboard didnt show the hard disk space. It shows only 150 gb instead of 185gb(15gb less u get in 200gb, u dont get the whole space anyways). Also after countless efforts of partitioning my HDD still i get the same problem.
Can anyone help ? any kind of suggestion is surely welcome..
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Just a little clarification so far as hard disk capacity goes.. Its kinda funny though but the hard disks follow a different (metric) formula for counting kilo-mega-giga etc i.e. 1000bytes=1 KB, 1000KB=1 MB and so on. Whereas the cyberworld uses 1024bytes=1KB, 1024KB=1MB. This reduction of 24 bytes per KB leads to about 14 GB (13.73548508 GB to be precise ;-) ) loss in 200 GB HDD. so thats y u dont get whole space. and higher you go, more is the (percieved) loss..
I dont think it will allocate 50 GB , something wrong here , better use a DiskManager , search segate website for one, they have it, and create the partitions using it
http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/driver...r_download.html
http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/driver...r_download.html
