XP PRO not recognising capacity of Hard Disks

simonkenya · #1 21-10-2007, 09:41 AM

Can anyone help?

I have setup my BIOS and saved. Then went to go put the OS disk in the drive and started setup, all was going well until it asked my to partition my 1TB hard disk(2x500GB disks) and it saying I only have 1400000MB in total!!??? What can I do anyone??

Si

**Spencer2004** · #2 21-10-2007, 10:02 AM

try reformatting the disks, if that doesn't work reset your bios settings to the defaults.

simonkenya · #3 21-10-2007, 12:28 PM

tried with default settings on my bios - no luck. How do i go about reformatting the disks?

**Spencer2004** · #4 21-10-2007, 01:15 PM

well when you format a disk you lose everything on it so make sure you have nothing important on it.

go to my computer, then right click on the drives that are being mis read and click format.

if that doesn't work go to control panel, then administrative tools, then computer management, then disk management, then hopefully you will see something like 'unallocated space' next to your drives. if so you simply right click on the drives and select extend partition and follow on from there.

i hope that helps

**thingie2** · #5 20-02-2008, 04:28 PM

Sorry if I read wrong, but it looks right, 1400000MB Is approximatly 1.3TB or has the number of 0's been miss typed?

**tomthedrummer1992** · #6 20-02-2008, 08:58 PM

That is indeed approximately 1.3TB.

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