Hi, my brother has a 160GB HD. Here's the problem: it only shows up as 127GB. Any thoughts on what the problem ans solution is?
Also if it helps, he had to re-format it several times, and Windows won't install XP anymore.
first you must realize you will lose some "space" because your Hard drive has 160 billion bytes but in binary a gigabyte is 2^30 or 1,073,741,824 bytes. So your hard should show ~149 GB in windows.
the reason why you have only 127 GB or 137,438,953,472 bytes is because in the orginal XP, that was the max for a single drive. they fixed it in SP1. here is the knowledge base info on this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/303013
as for windows not installing, I don't have a clue.