short changed on HDD size

[BLUESTAKE]

Could any point me in the right direction(forum post ect..) for this problem of HDD size over 137Gig.

Bios states 500Gig, windows device manager, under disk drives, volumes shows cap @ 476938MB & UNALLOCATED SPACE @ 345876MB. see attachment.

Got windows xp pro sp2, mobo Abit AW9D-MAX, western digital cav16 500gig HDD.

Can someone please help been to Windows site just end up going round in circles, think it's a software problem but not sure.:banghead:

 

[BUFF]

Have you tried initialising & formatting it?

 

[llwyd]

I don't see the problem..... You just haven't formatted the rest of the drive as D:\, youve set up a partition. Go into disk manager and format the unallocated space (as NTFS)

 

[nathan]

Is it formatted with fat32? there are some limitations with this filesystem. I would (if it isnt) format it with ntfs!

 

[BLUESTAKE]

It is already set as NTFS drive "C". Didn't want to partition the drive might uninstall then re install to see what went wrong, got a 300gig on other pc with XP home that sees all 300gig, just can't remember what i did to get that.

Thanx anyway

 

[equk]

I would just delete all partitions and start again.

If you want 1 partition just create a new NTFS partition that is 100%, or I think you can resize the current partition using partition magic or similar.