I bought a 250Gb HD and when I was going to format it, it says it has 130Gb?

[ajouvenat]

Try updating your motherboard BIOS.

[TechnoFeather]

You have the "48 Bit LBA problem".

What OS are you currently using on your PC?

[tibes]

Assuming you're running windows you need to either download a patch from Microsoft (XP) or change a registry setting (Win2k). I can't remember what the registry change is in 2k, but you should be able to google both no worries..

[ktamiola]

Hey...

If You are using WInXP download Service Pack 2... It should fix that problem ...

Good luck...

Camil

[plastic]

SP1 should do it too. but the original windows xp can't format larger than 130gb.

[MadSkillzMan]

ive had issues with SP2 and CG progs. Technofeather is right, its what we call the 48bit LBA problem. Gigabyte boards are famous for this. whats your motherboard brand?

[hkspowers]

Ok, I have just finished building a new system, and I put in a 250GB SATA HD. Well I got the same thing it would only see 130 GB. The reason for this is that Windows before sp2 could only see 130 gb of space on a single drive. Yes installing SP-2 would be the way one would think of solving this problem. But Unless you want a big ugly partition in the way, I would recomend that you use a program like partition magic to format the other part of the HD and then merge the partitions togather after installing SP-2. Leaving you with one nice, clean, pretty Partition. Hope this helps.

James

[Beamtracer]

I'm coming from a Mac perspective, but I seem to remember that some old machines (around 1999 vintage) had ATA controllers that could only see about 130 gigs. I don't know if that applies to old Wintel machines.

[MadSkillzMan]

normally, you get a floppy with ur hard drive, and you can format it outside of windows. Those programs are prety nifty. A friend of mine had a 160, single partition, and this was before SP2. Yes he had to update his mobo, but the point is it did work.

[alvin777]

Hi, you could also try if ther's a jumper setting to make it detect the whole capacity or as close to it as possible. But it will not format at the full capacity as far as I know.

God bless,
Alvin http://www.applecatholic.com
Philippines

[durbdk]

Service pack 2 was a mess, screwed up more than it fixed!

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