Hard drive not as big

[tommy060289]

hi, I recently bought a new hard drive. The drive size is 250GB, I took out my old hard drive and installed the new one with a fresh start. In my computer the hard drive only shows up as 125GB, why is this?

Tom

 

[Cromewell]

that is a windows partition size limitation, you can use 3rd party software to partition it to the full size

 

[tommy060289]

so windows diesnt allow above 125GB, what are these third party programs you speak of.

 

[Jas420221]

so windows diesnt allow above 125GB, what are these third party programs you speak of.

Partition Magic to name one (the on that I use).

 

[MADKING153]

I just have the same problems..Now even i open partition magic , it only recognize i got 128GB ( instead of 200gb) . In device mangement , it also recognize my HD only got 128gb ....How is this happen ?

 

[tommy060289]

i have found out how to work partition manager but everytime I try to do something it says it is a trial version and wont do it, were can I get similar software for free?

 

[Cromewell]

who makes your hard drive? they might have a program you can use

 

[tommy060289]

on the box it says gericom but on the actual harddrive it says western digital so I presume gericom just put there name on it.

 

[Cromewell]

take a look at this and see if any of it helps you http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013

 

[tommy060289]

that is for servicepack 1 so I cannt use, thanks anyway.

 

[Cromewell]

if you have windows 200x server you can use that to partition the entire drive, or try making 2 partitions and merging them with partition magic

 

[Praetor]

so windows diesnt allow above 125GB

Its 127GB

what are these third party programs you speak of.

Partition magic is one

In device mangement , it also recognize my HD only got 128gb ....How is this happen ?

Thats another limitation (not a windows thing). .... you need to make partitions, each of which can be limited to 127GB