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Too much harddisk space for windows xp?

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hfusion

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Hey guys, I built a computer recently that has two SATA connections on the motherboard, and then 3 IDE connections.

I bought two 120 gig SATA drives and have them set up on a striped raid 0 array.

I bought 6 more hard drives from newegg, each one is 250gigs. I plugged them all in correctly, master slave, etc.

How come windows only shows about half of what i have plugged into the computer?

I got 240 gigabytes on SATA.
I got 250 + 250 + 250 + 250 + 250 + 250 = 1500 gigs.

Total: 1740 gigs. In windows, it only shows up as around 800 gigs....and i had to some registry tweaks i found online to get that high. Does windows not support this?
 
windows doesn't support more then 136 gigs i believe so u have to partition your drive. I think the new service packs may have a fix but as for now partition all the drives over that size and you should be a-ok.
 
oh no wonder. Thanks bro, I will do that in a bit, once i get home from work =)
 
^ good advice :p

also what filesystem are you using?

and go to
Start > Run (type) diskmgmt.msc >
and describe what you see, drives, reported size, partitions and there size

anything attached to the PCI cards should be reported with full capacity since they employ SCSI drivers and dont have the 48bit LBA issue, thus no 137GB barrier



and one last thing you will be mercilessly ridiculed if you continue to refer to that array in Megabytes
good god man its a 1.7terabyte (TB) storage array :eek: :p
 
I found the problem! yay!

I did the fix posted in that sticky as well as a few other minor adjustments using some software i found and now it is all showing up perfectly.

And sorry about the terabytes thing, i just said gigs because i was counting it off as i typed it, hehe.

I wasnt aware of the limitations in harddrive size like that, but now I am glad to know because I know of some people who would REALLY like to know about this fix =)
 
Originally posted by hfusion
And sorry about the terabytes thing, i just said gigs because i was counting it off as i typed it, hehe.
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LOL
I have a strange since of humor
most people cant wait to list there rig with the TB designate
it was just a joke :D

Glad it worked out ;)
 
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