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80GB gone missing!!

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Gabo

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Hi All,

I recently bought an ASUS A8N-SLI Premium and I'm trying to hook up my WD 200GB to it. (full system on sig)
When I was trying to install Wind0ze on it, I noticed that windows was picking up my drive as only around 130GBs... strange. Ok whatever maybe I'm just too tired or something so I thought. After the install, booted up Wind0ze and looked at the C:\ in my computer. 120GB total capcity!? :confused:

I thought for sure that my HD was messed up and the platter was too small... but to be sure, I decided to use the FDISK utility on my FreeBSD install CD to see what drive size it's picking up... 186GBs in total...

So the drive is not borked? Can somebody help me out here? where did Wind0ze hide the other 66GBs?? Perhaps there's something I'm not doing right? I've heard of 10% loss to the NTFS file system but from a 200GB drive right down to 120GB is a bit unreasonable isn't it?

:confused:
 
The drive on my SATA options does not seem to have the LBA access mode option. It is either "Auto" or "Large"
However, my IDE options do have LBA access mode options.

does that mean my SATA does not suport LBA? :confused:
 
Actually you need to have SP2 in order for windows to support your full 200 gb. It happened to me when I built my computer. Once you install SP2, go to disk management and your space will be there unallocated.

The only problem is that you'll end up with 2 partitions but your space will be there.
 
Also, check the drive to make sure it doesn't have a jumper on it to limit the total capacity of the drive.
 
oooh! is that so? I never checked under the disk management section.
Will try out when I get home. Thanks guys :)

I'll post the outcome when I'm done!
 
z-lite said:
Also, check the drive to make sure it doesn't have a jumper on it to limit the total capacity of the drive.
Click to expand...

My SATA drive doesn't seem to have any jumpers at all
 
Some do, some don't. At least you know it's not the drive that's limiting the capacity.
 
Hey guys!

I updated my wind0ze to SP2 and sure enough under drive management the rest of my HD was there unallocated :D

Thanks everybody who posted in here :D
 
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