I bought a 60GB hard drive, and I put it in, formated, and installed windows on it. I went to My Computer and clicked on C:\ and it tells me that the hard drive is only 8GB in size.
What gives?
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I bought a 60GB hard drive, and I put it in, formated, and installed windows on it. I went to My Computer and clicked on C:\ and it tells me that the hard drive is only 8GB in size.
What gives?
When you set up the partition did you happen to only select 8 gigs as the size? What did you use to format it?
I set it to 100% when I partioned and used the utility that comes with Windows 98 Setup to format it.
Hmmm it looks like something went wrong. Hopefully I'm incorrect.
Might just want to reformat and partition it again. If you are installing XP or 2k then you can adjust the partitions during setup as well as reformat.
how new is ur system?
older computers do not Support drives bigger that 8 GB
A limitation of LBA.
http://www.dewassoc.com/kbase/hard_d...itations_2.htm
Also do recall that FAT32 tops out at 2^32 clusters, so depending on the cluster size selected....nevertheless it should be able to fill up 60GB as long as the LBA stuff gets fixed.
Ah ha. It was a slightly older system that I put it on. So that's probably it. :)
Thanks, guys.