hard drive woes

[turpieaj]

Just bought a 160gb drive, created a 30gb partition and installed win XP..The Bios is only detecting a max size of 138GB, (which currently stands as 3 partitions)which is not a problem as in two weeks im upgrading me Mobo, RAM and CPU. I dont wish to flash the BIOS on this mobo at the mo as I have managed to ragg two boards before with attempting this lark.

My question is, when I upgrade my mobo I assume the missing GB of space will be recognised within the BIOS/XP, will i need to reformat the whole hard drive again, or will the remaininig found space just need to be a created partion formatted in disk managment?

Andy

[JAZ]

You lose loads of space when you partition it, perhaps thats the problem?
My 120gb after formatting as one full partition only shows as 111gb but it does seem youve lost a lot more space than you should have.
You should really re-format if you change your m-board anyway but I assume your hoping you can format 1 partition and reinstall xp on that whilst keeping the other partitions intact, I would just wait and see what happens when you get your new stuff.

[wildpitch]

I think it's BIOS limitations Turp. I bought a couple of 200GB's a while back and had to load some utility on the PC so the PC saw more than 130'ish Gb. I remember reading that it was pretty common for even recent mobos not seeing more than that. Do a search on the h/d manufacturers web site, and you should find something.

This is the link I used for my Maxtor drives..

http://maxtor.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/m...cGFnZT0x&p_li=


@ JAZ - Never realised you lost much disc space when you partitioned, are you sure you loose much percentage wise?

[sirius]

I had this once.......I baught my computer from aria, and it came faulty and whathavya anyays it got sent too and fro a few times and I ended up voiding the warranty by going in the case.

I noticed my hdd was plugged in the IDE 3 slot of my board. Thats stange I thought, but left it.

One day my hdd and windowsxp was playing up and did a reformat and partition, I lost 10GB off my disk somehow. Anyway, big do's and little do's I tried the IDE 1 and IDE 2 slots of my board and it found it all staright away, piece of piss.

Might be unique to my system, but you coould try another IDE slot perhaps?

Best see if anyone well up on computers disagrees first though lol.


See ya

Sirius.

[turpieaj]

Just got me new mobo (looks fucking mint with 6 ddr slots 800mhz fsb). But guess what put the fucker in and it dont work!

Back to the shop me thinks

Andy