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WD Hard Drive Size Issue
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? |
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Carl Lucas wrote:
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? To fully use drives larger than 127GB, you need 48-bit addressing. This may not be implemented by your PC's BIOS. If you go into your BIOS setup, can it see the full capacity of the drive? It also must be enabled within windows. That comes with Windows 2000 SP4 and higher, or Windows XP SP2 and higher. |
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Grinder wrote:
Carl Lucas wrote: 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? To fully use drives larger than 127GB, you need 48-bit addressing. This may not be implemented by your PC's BIOS. If you go into your BIOS setup, can it see the full capacity of the drive? It also must be enabled within windows. That comes with Windows 2000 SP4 and higher, or Windows XP SP2 and higher. The Bios does see it as a Western Digital 160. How do I enable it in Windows? I suppose I'll have to reformat it also. |
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Carl Lucas wrote:
Grinder wrote: Carl Lucas wrote: 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? To fully use drives larger than 127GB, you need 48-bit addressing. This may not be implemented by your PC's BIOS. If you go into your BIOS setup, can it see the full capacity of the drive? It also must be enabled within windows. That comes with Windows 2000 SP4 and higher, or Windows XP SP2 and higher. The Bios does see it as a Western Digital 160. How do I enable it in Windows? What version and service pack are you using? If it's below the limits I've mentioned, I would start by upgrading to the appropriate service pack. I suppose I'll have to reformat it also. I expect you're right there. |
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Carl Lucas wrote: Grinder wrote: Carl Lucas wrote: 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? To fully use drives larger than 127GB, you need 48-bit addressing. This may not be implemented by your PC's BIOS. If you go into your BIOS setup, can it see the full capacity of the drive? It also must be enabled within windows. That comes with Windows 2000 SP4 and higher, or Windows XP SP2 and higher. The Bios does see it as a Western Digital 160. How do I enable it in Windows? I suppose I'll have to reformat it also. If you're using Windows XP, just install the Service Pack like Grinder said. Either SP1 or SP2 will do. You don't have to enable 48-bit addressing yourself - at least I don't have to on my machine. |
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all you need is SP2
-- Alan Kakareka Data Recovery Service 786-253-8286 cell http://www.247recovery.com -- wrote in message ups.com... Carl Lucas wrote: Grinder wrote: Carl Lucas wrote: 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? To fully use drives larger than 127GB, you need 48-bit addressing. This may not be implemented by your PC's BIOS. If you go into your BIOS setup, can it see the full capacity of the drive? It also must be enabled within windows. That comes with Windows 2000 SP4 and higher, or Windows XP SP2 and higher. The Bios does see it as a Western Digital 160. How do I enable it in Windows? I suppose I'll have to reformat it also. If you're using Windows XP, just install the Service Pack like Grinder said. Either SP1 or SP2 will do. You don't have to enable 48-bit addressing yourself - at least I don't have to on my machine. |
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Grinder wrote:
wrote: wrote: Carl Lucas wrote: Grinder wrote: Carl Lucas wrote: 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? To fully use drives larger than 127GB, you need 48-bit addressing. This may not be implemented by your PC's BIOS. If you go into your BIOS setup, can it see the full capacity of the drive? It also must be enabled within windows. That comes with Windows 2000 SP4 and higher, or Windows XP SP2 and higher. The Bios does see it as a Western Digital 160. How do I enable it in Windows? I suppose I'll have to reformat it also. If you're using Windows XP, just install the Service Pack like Grinder said. Either SP1 or SP2 will do. You don't have to enable 48-bit addressing yourself - at least I don't have to on my machine. Just installed SP1. (Different topic but my son says he's heard some not too good things about SP2.) Now I get 149.05 gig. It said, as I reformatted it, that the size was 152,625. Just confused why it's not closer to 160 gig. Any input? Drive manufacturers consider 1GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes, but Windows thinks that 1GB = 1024^3 bytes. So 152,625MB (in Windows) = 160,038,912,000 bytes Thanks! |
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Carl Lucas wrote:
Drive manufacturers consider 1GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes, but Windows thinks that 1GB = 1024^3 bytes. So 152,625MB (in Windows) = 160,038,912,000 bytes Thanks! There's a class action under way now, claiming WD uses misleading size figures. You can join if you've bought a WD drive recently. Only the lawyers get any money! :-) -- Virg Wall |
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