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Win2k doesn't recognize large disk

Discussion in 'PC Hardware' started by skylane, 2008/12/06.

  1. 2008/12/06
    skylane

    skylane Inactive Thread Starter

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    I inherited an HP Pavilliojn a300n desktop which had an invalid Win/XP. I formatted the HD and installed a copy
    of Win2k and applied ALL maintenance SP-4 ++. The HD is 40GB
    but Win2k only sees 5-6GB. The system is running fine..but I fear
    that I will run out of space eventually. What can I do to get Win2k
    to see all of the remaining 30+ GB..? BIOS update perhaps..?
     
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    wildfire

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    As far as I know w2k doesn't have an 8gb limit and you're not even shown that, yes BIOS upgrade perhaps, but before you do what does the current BIOS see the drive as?
     
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  4. 2008/12/07
    skylane

    skylane Inactive Thread Starter

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    I chkd. the BIOS (setup) and saw the Disk to be a WDC400EB and
    noted "Maximum LBA Capacity 40020MB ". So it appears that the
    BIOS for this MB is correct.
     
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    FastTracker

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    What did you format as? FAT, FAT32, or NTFS.
     
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    Steve R Jones

    Steve R Jones SuperGeek Staff

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    Click Start->Run and type: diskmgmt.msc

    Does the rest of the drive show up there as unallowcated?
     
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    skylane

    skylane Inactive Thread Starter

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    diskmgmt.msc did the trick, whereas disk defragmenter ONLY showed C: NTFS
    The utility show a hidden D: of the remainder of the hard file (approx. 34 GB).
    How can I remove the D: partition?
     
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