HDD showing up as wrong size??

Kerplunk · 26 Feb 2006 at 22:44

I have a WD 250GB SATA HDD, it shows up in the BIOS as a 250GB drive but when I partition it up it only shows up as a 130gb hd!

I have Win XP Home SP2.

Any Ideas? :confused:

Septh · 26 Feb 2006 at 23:33

Hard drives also seem to do this lol just a thing i guess

smids · 26 Feb 2006 at 23:51

To enable the rest (which will appear as a separate partition

Right click My computer > Manage > Disk Management > Right click unpartitioned/unallocated space (black line) > Format. You'll want it to be NTFS file system.

Kerplunk · 27 Feb 2006 at 09:45

Its not a case of re-enabling, it just isnt there to enable.

chex · 27 Feb 2006 at 10:21

you may not have HDDs over 137GB enalbed on your computer

download WD diagnostics - it'll sort you out