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Old August 1st 06, 12:38 AM posted to alt.comp.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Rod Speed
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Default WD Hard Drive Size Issue

DaveW wrote:

Windows XP can ONLY recognize harddrive sizes up to 137 GB unformatted UNTIL you load
SP2.


SP1 is fine too.

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"Carl Lucas" wrote in message
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Have a Dell Dimension 8300 desktop. Just installed a Western Digital
160 gig hard drive without any problems. An issue is that the set up
shows the drive as 160 gig. However in Windows it shows it as a 126
gig. What's with that?

After I installed it I went to "Control Panel", "Administrative
Tools", "Computer Management", "Disk Management". There it showed
the drive as 126 gig. Of course I had to format it so I did.

So why is it shown as 126 and not 160?