hard drive problem

s4ch117 · 10 Jun 2006 at 12:50

I just brought a 320gb western digital hdd from ocuk and i plugged it in and XP is only saying that its 127Gb in size. what can i do to sort this out?

xtreme.BIN · 10 Jun 2006 at 13:42

Install SP1

s4ch117 · 10 Jun 2006 at 17:15

have done still the same

UKDTweak · 10 Jun 2006 at 17:17

Get a program like Partition Magic, it should let you see and format the whole drive..

xtreme.BIN · 11 Jun 2006 at 12:22

s4ch117 said:
have done still the same

If you have installed SP1 then it should be showing it's full capacity in disk managment!! Sp1 has 48-bit LBA support which is what allows large HD's to be fully accessed in one partition