Hello
I fitted a new 200Gb Seagate (bought from OcUK) to my mates Pentium 4 system which is about 4 years old. It was recognised in the bios as a 200Gb and the label on it states the same. I let the Win XP disc do its stuff and when it came the part about the partitions etc it stated that the primary partition of the the drive was 131068Mb or 127Gb in size. I let it format and complete setup but Windows too detects it as a 127Gb drive. There were no other partitions listed on the drive to explain the readings. I know older systems sometimes can't recognize bigger drives (The new drive replaced a 40Gb unit) but I thought that was ages ago.
Any ideas why the drive is a less than two thirds what it should be?
Cheers,
Tag
I fitted a new 200Gb Seagate (bought from OcUK) to my mates Pentium 4 system which is about 4 years old. It was recognised in the bios as a 200Gb and the label on it states the same. I let the Win XP disc do its stuff and when it came the part about the partitions etc it stated that the primary partition of the the drive was 131068Mb or 127Gb in size. I let it format and complete setup but Windows too detects it as a 127Gb drive. There were no other partitions listed on the drive to explain the readings. I know older systems sometimes can't recognize bigger drives (The new drive replaced a 40Gb unit) but I thought that was ages ago.
Any ideas why the drive is a less than two thirds what it should be?
Cheers,
Tag