Re: Where's my 72GB gone?

[Martin Howell <martin.howell@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I had this.  Check on the disc manufacturer's site,  and download a
utility that solves the problems (at least Maxtor does).

Martin

Neil Fuller wrote:

>I know that this has been covered here before but not having had this
problem previously, the thread went in one ear and out of the other - So to
speak.
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>Also, I've looked in the archive but haven't managed to find much, so .
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>My server (used mostly for file serving so it's more a NAS device!!) is
a 900Mhz Athlon in a KT7A MoBo
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>I've just put another disk in it which is a 200GB Seagate
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>When I first rebooted, the BIOS reported it as a 128GB disk so I
flashed the BIOS and sure enough, the BIOS now sees it as 200GB.
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>However, Win 2K server still only sees 128.00GB, which it has formatted
fine. However, where's my "spare" 72GB gone!?
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>I did find something in the archive about needing Win2K SP3 or 4 for
large drives. I'm currently running SP4.
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>Anyone got any ideas how to get Win2K to see the full 200GB?
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>TIA
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>Regards
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>Neil
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