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

["magnatizerr" <magnatizerr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Many thanks Mal (all)

I went onto the Seagate website and downloaded the 'DiscWizard'=20
utility program. Works a treat - it's a low level format tool that=20
writes an update to the registry, therefore allowing you to see (and=20
format) larger drives.

You learn something new every day/!?!

Many thanks again

Cheers

Martin


--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, Mal Lansell <mlansell@f...> wrote:
> 127Gb (real GB, not the fake HD manufacturer ones!) is one of=20
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> limits where the numbering scheme runs out and some new trick or=20
> technology is required to deal with larger capacity disks.
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> If you go to the website of the HD manufacturer, and search on=20
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> limits, you should find information on how to get access to the=20
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> disk.  If the motherboard is failry new, it should be a case of=20
setting=20
> something in the BIOS.  Even if it turns out that your motherboard=20
can't=20
> cope with disks this big, it is still possible to use the full=20
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> by installing a "dynamic drive overlay" program which will
also be=20
> available from the manufacturers site (this is what I had to do=20
with mine!).
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> Mal
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> >Can anybody help - please!!!
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> >I've just formatted a 160Gb hard drive using Partition Magic=20
(NTFS)=20
> >and as usual on start up you notice a drop in available Gb
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> >(approx 155Gb accessible).  However, after I suffered an=20
> >installation problem (motherboard went down) I decided to=20
reformat=20
> >again. I used exactly the same process (Partition Magic =96
NTFS)=20
but=20
> >this time I only have 127Gb available =96 it doesn't matter what
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do,=20
> >reformat, new partitions, re-size space, I can not seem to=20
discover=20
> >where the missing Gb's have gone??!?!=20
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> >Any suggestions would be most appreciated!!!!!
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> >Many thanks in advance.
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> >Martin
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