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Old 09-09-2007   #1 (permalink)
Rico


 
 

200 Gb Firewire Hard Drive only showing 127 Gb

So here is the issue. I have a Seagate HD and Windows Vista Premium. I
wanted to reformat it is a 200Gb drive. When I formatted it I lost some of
it's size. It is formatted and it is only showing 127 Gb and seems to work
but I lost over a quarter of the drive space. Anybody have any indes? I
even tried a USB enclosure same problem.

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Old 09-09-2007   #2 (permalink)
Richard Urban


 
 

Re: 200 Gb Firewire Hard Drive only showing 127 Gb

You formatted the drive in fat32 format using Windows XP. This is limited to
roughly 130 gig maximum size. You can format fat32 to larger sizes by using
3rd party tools. What you should really do is format the drive with to the
NTFS standard, which all current Windows operating systems understand.

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"Rico" <Rico@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> So here is the issue. I have a Seagate HD and Windows Vista Premium. I
> wanted to reformat it is a 200Gb drive. When I formatted it I lost some
> of
> it's size. It is formatted and it is only showing 127 Gb and seems to
> work
> but I lost over a quarter of the drive space. Anybody have any indes? I
> even tried a USB enclosure same problem.
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Old 09-10-2007   #3 (permalink)
Juarez


 
 

Re: 200 Gb Firewire Hard Drive only showing 127 Gb

On Sun, 09 Sep 2007 23:20:56 -0400, Richard Urban wrote:
Quote:

> You formatted the drive in fat32 format using Windows XP. This is limited to
> roughly 130 gig maximum size. You can format fat32 to larger sizes by using
> 3rd party tools. What you should really do is format the drive with to the
> NTFS standard, which all current Windows operating systems understand.
>
Or format two FAT32 partitions instead of just one.
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Old 11-24-2007   #4 (permalink)


vista home premium 32bit
 
 

Re: 200 Gb Firewire Hard Drive only showing 127 Gb

so what if it was formatted in NTFS and still only shows 127 gb? NTSF shows up as the default. I have a 300gb Seagate and didnt want to partition it. When i got it, it only showed up as 127gb. i formatted and got nothing. I went to computer management and was able to partition, i have full use, but dont want the partitions. any suggestions? im running vista home premium 32bit.
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