Re: (OT) Help!! – Lost Gb’s during Hard Drive format!!

[Mal Lansell <mlansell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

127Gb (real GB, not the fake HD manufacturer ones!) is one of those
limits where the numbering scheme runs out and some new trick or
technology is required to deal with larger capacity disks.

If you go to the website of the HD manufacturer, and search on capacity
limits, you should find information on how to get access to the entire
disk.  If the motherboard is failry new, it should be a case of setting
something in the BIOS.  Even if it turns out that your motherboard can't
cope with disks this big, it is still possible to use the full capacity
by installing a "dynamic drive overlay" program which will also
be
available from the manufacturers site (this is what I had to do with
mine!).

Mal

>Can anybody help - please!!!
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>I've just formatted a 160Gb hard drive using Partition Magic (NTFS)
>and as usual on start up you notice a drop in available Gb space
>(approx 155Gb accessible).  However, after I suffered an
>installation problem (motherboard went down) I decided to reformat
>again. I used exactly the same process (Partition Magic – NTFS) but
>this time I only have 127Gb available – it doesn't matter what I do,
>reformat, new partitions, re-size space, I can not seem to discover
>where the missing Gb's have gone??!?!
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>Any suggestions would be most appreciated!!!!!
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>Many thanks in advance.
>
>Martin
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