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  • August 17, 2006 at 11:08 pm #14749
    SilverSides
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    I orderd a 250gb samsung hdd and went to install XP on it, just before the format (full NTFS) it was showing it to only be 130GB, muh 😕

    Sure enough xp installed and everything is telling me it’s only 130gb, everything except the lables on the hdd and my reciept that is.

    So has this been mislabled and sold onto me or am i being really dence and there’s some dumb partition limit with NTFS (im 99% sure there isn’t not like FAT 16 or 32)

    I dont have partition magic or similar atm to double check it

    August 18, 2006 at 5:17 am #32354
    XDCMADMAX
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    How up-to-date is your mobo? Some older models will only see up to a certain size.

    August 18, 2006 at 8:37 am #32355
    Wipers
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    What Max says. If a mobo BIOS upgrade dont work you can usually download utilities from the drive manufacturers web site to allow you to see it all.

    Maximum partition size under NTFS is 16 exabytes (or 18 billion gigabytes 😉 )

    August 18, 2006 at 11:32 am #32356
    Deicist
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    Install service pack 2. XP up to service pack 1 can only see drives up to around 130GB.

    August 18, 2006 at 2:28 pm #32357
    SilverSides
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    @Deicist wrote:

    Install service pack 2. XP up to service pack 1 can only see drives up to around 130GB.

    Ding ding ding could be both, my xp install is original xp and i didn’t realise it only see’s upto 130 gb. The mobos getting old now too.
    You just saved me a embarrasing exchance with microdirect.co.uk

    TY 🙂

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