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04-21-2007, 11:49 PM	#1 (permalink)
Mission True Techie Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 141	Not getting 100% hard drive capacity Hey, i just built my new system...everythings set up...i went to install windows..and it said that my hard drive capacity is only about 131GB when i have a 250GB hard drive. could it be maybe the sata plug i picked? jumpers? firmware?...im completly stumped...it's never happened to me before. thanks for anything!

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i have never heard of that barrier...wow

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Mission True Techie Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 141	Re: Not getting 100% hard drive capacity neither have i. one problem though..the link to the fix in the topic is broken...because the forums insert a "..." in the link to save space...page cannot be displayed.

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