Not As much gig?

spraybottle · 05-26-2006, 05:45 PM

Alright, I recently finished fixing and building my computer. Everything is fine, and when I boot, it says that the hard drive is at 300gb or someting like that. But, when I try and run everything, it seems liket there is only 120 gb because when I checked on disk space, it said 120 gb. I was wondering why so much gb became unused... Here's what I bought:
Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 300GB 3.5" SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM

elmarcorulz · 05-26-2006, 05:57 PM

What O/S do you have? And what Service Pack?

spraybottle · 05-26-2006, 09:59 PM

My OS is windows XP home edition sp 1.

elmarcorulz · 05-26-2006, 10:16 PM

What motherboard?

**The_Other_One** · 05-26-2006, 10:21 PM

I think basically where elmarcorulz is going... Dose the drive show up as 300G in the bios? Your version of windows should be alright for such a drive. How did it show duing the installation when you had to format? Did it show the full size there?

spraybottle · 05-27-2006, 03:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The_Other_One

I think basically where elmarcorulz is going... Dose the drive show up as 300G in the bios? Your version of windows should be alright for such a drive. How did it show duing the installation when you had to format? Did it show the full size there?

Hmmm, well when I tried formatting it, it gave me 120 gb I think (Well it was in bytes, so it was huge, but the first three numbers were 120)
So, I'm not sure what's going on. When I boot my pc, it gives me
Detecting Ide 2 blah blah blah 300.1 gb. So, I guess, it is reading it as that or something... My motherboard is a BFG VNF4 Ultra nForce4 atx motherboard.

kobaj · 05-27-2006, 04:35 AM

SP 1 doesnt support any more than 130 gb. You will need to get SP2 in order to see all of your hard drive space.

elmarcorulz · 05-27-2006, 10:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kobaj

SP 1 doesnt support any more than 130 gb. You will need to get SP2 in order to see all of your hard drive space.

SP1 does. Its XP on its own that doesn't.

05-26-2006, 05:45 PM	#1 (permalink)
spraybottle Silver Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 169	Not As much gig? Alright, I recently finished fixing and building my computer. Everything is fine, and when I boot, it says that the hard drive is at 300gb or someting like that. But, when I try and run everything, it seems liket there is only 120 gb because when I checked on disk space, it said 120 gb. I was wondering why so much gb became unused... Here's what I bought: Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 300GB 3.5" SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM __________________ Hilarious Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0pL_...64A0C&index=12 PC Specs: Soon to come...

05-26-2006, 05:57 PM	#2 (permalink)
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05-26-2006, 09:59 PM	#3 (permalink)
spraybottle Silver Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 169	My OS is windows XP home edition sp 1. __________________ Hilarious Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0pL_...64A0C&index=12 PC Specs: Soon to come...

05-26-2006, 10:16 PM	#4 (permalink)
elmarcorulz VIP Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: UK Age: 23 Posts: 6,033	What motherboard? __________________ C2D E6300 @ 2.6Ghz Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 2GB DDR2 667 1TB (1x500GB 2x250GB HDD) BFG 8800GTS 320MB PFC Til I Die

05-26-2006, 10:21 PM	#5 (permalink)
The_Other_One Super Moderator Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Lexington, NC Age: 25 Posts: 13,430	I think basically where elmarcorulz is going... Dose the drive show up as 300G in the bios? Your version of windows should be alright for such a drive. How did it show duing the installation when you had to format? Did it show the full size there? __________________ Primary- i7 920 \| 6GB RAM \| 9800GT \| 160+160+500GB Secondary- Athlon X2 4200 \| 2GB RAM \| 7600GT \| 80+250GB Netbook - Atom N280 \| 2GB RAM \| GMA945\| 160GB

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