[COD2_fanatic]

I have a seagate hard drive that i pulled out of my dads old computer (an HP) that is about i'd say 2 years old, it is labeled to have 160GB's (although i know it was a bit lower because of the way they rate them), but now (have reformated through windows as a slave) it is only registering 127GB's whats wrong with it? i plan on using it as storage on my computer since i download ALOT of stuff.

Should i wright zero's to it with the seagate CD that came with one of my other drives?

[turtile]

You need to have Windows SP1a or SP2 in order for it to see more than 127GB.

[Matronx]

if you have an operating system that should see it for what it is, i say run a diag. Should be with the cd you have. test if if you havent. i once had a 60 gig that couldent decide if it wanted to be 60 40 or 20 gig every time i turned it on it would change, it was bad (obveusly) maby you have the saim problem

[LA1]

You need to have Windows SP1a or SP2 in order for it to see more than 127GB

...NOT

If it was formatted at 127gb in the other drive , you formatted it again, it will still just format 127gb

right click my computer, then click manage, the click disk management
look at your hd ? do you see 30gb of unused space ?

[COD2_fanatic]

right now i don't have it in, since my dads computer is a stupid low profile and i don't like going through the phase of getting the other one to work, i go back to my moms in 2 days (i'd rather work on my computer anyway) and then i'll post back

[COD2_fanatic]

ok, i got it in my computer adn it is still showing 127GB, reformating is not an option now as i have files on it, so i'm going to leave it the way it is untill i can get the freakin 250GB i've been needing

[turtile]

After you install the new service pack, you must partition the unpartitioned space and then merge the partitions.