New Hard Drive Not showing full capacity

fanglore

I have a western digital 200gb HDD in my comp. it previously had windows 98 on it. i went to format it and it said it was only 127gbs ??? whats uo with that? someone please help me. Thank you

Strider

There shouldn't be any problems for a 200GB drive. Are you sure it's 200GB? Anyway try reformatting it and make sure that the file ssytem is to NTFS.

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nandrasec

On Windows 95/98, due to the version of Microsoft's SCANDISK utility included with these operating systems being a 16-bit application, the FAT structure is not allowed to grow beyond around 4.2 million (< 222) clusters, placing the volume limit at 127.53 GB. A limitation in original versions of Windows 98/98SE's Fdisk utility causes it to incorrectly report disk sizes over 64 GB. A corrected version is available from Microsoft, but it cannot partition drives larger than 512GB [16]. The Windows 2000/XP installation program and filesystem creation tool imposes a limitation of 32 GB. However, both systems can read and write to FAT32 file systems of any size. This limitation is by design and according to Microsoft was imposed because many tasks on a very large FAT32 file system become slow and inefficient. This limitation can be bypassed by using third-party formatting utilities. Windows Me supports the FAT32 file system without any limits. However, similarly to Windows 95/98/98SE there is no native support for 48-bit LBA in Windows ME, meaning that the maximum disk size for ATA disks is 127.6 GB, the maximum size of an ATA disk using the previous long-standard 28-bit LBA.

atul484

I have rectified this problem practically Just do this :
You have to do jumper setting on the harddisk to maximum capacity... Tutorial are available at the harddisk cover.

horheg

Hi,

nandrasec is right: your problem is the FAT16 file system.

You need to reformat the drive as NTFS or FAT32, that actually means you should install Windows 2000/XP or any newer versions.

If you don't have enough RAM or processor speed to run these operating systems I recommend you install Linux, their file systems will recognize your drive's full capacity with no problem.

dolreich_c

Hi ,
u can try atul484 suggestion. Sometimes u need to set the jumpers or
you can go back into disk management and see if you can right click the unallocated space and see if you can format it. Download the ultimate boot cd software that can take care of it .