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About the 137 gig limit???
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Sat May 14, 2005 4:23 pmby Gary R.
I just bought and installed a new hardrive, a WD 160 gig, 7200 rpm, 8 meg buffer. Problem is windows only registers 137 gig of the 160 gig. What can I download or install to correct this??? I doubt I'll ever need all that as I still have my original 60 gig maxtor in place but it is nice to get all you pay for.
Re: About the 137 gig limit???
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Sat May 14, 2005 4:48 pmby || Andy ||
I have the same problem, but one registers 168 (D:\)and one 137 (C:\)
both are 200
Re: About the 137 gig limit???
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Sat May 14, 2005 5:05 pmby Jared
I'm not sure, but what kind of motherboards are you guys using?
Perhaps there is a bios update that will fix this?
Re: About the 137 gig limit???
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Sat May 14, 2005 5:39 pmby asda_price
I think it may only be counting the free space left on that partition? Just a thought, though.
Cheers. :)
Rob. :)
Re: About the 137 gig limit???
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Sat May 14, 2005 7:07 pmby Hyperion2
The problem is the result of a technology improvement. To make it confusing, the problem specifically arose when the industry switched from 32-bit to 48-bit.
There IS a 137GB limit to the new 48-bit addressing, but it's not all lost.
Maxtor has made an application called "Big Drive Enabler" which lets you bump through the "wall".
http://www.maxtor.com/portal/site/Maxto ... nloadID=11
Re: About the 137 gig limit???
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Sun May 15, 2005 4:16 amby || Andy ||
Thx Hype
Re: About the 137 gig limit???
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Sun May 15, 2005 1:21 pmby Skittles
My problem was only getting 127GB out of a 250GB. So I made two, 125GB partitions.
Re: About the 137 gig limit???
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Sun May 15, 2005 2:50 pmby GA_Pilot
My problem was only getting 127GB out of a 250GB. So I made two, 125GB partitions.
I had to do that also with my 250 gig HD
Re: About the 137 gig limit???
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Mon May 16, 2005 3:41 pmby Gary R.
Well, then I guess I will have to do the math and partition both of mine appropriatly. I have two now, the crappy 60 gig, 5200 rpm maxtor that my PC was built with and a brand new Western Dig 160 meg, 8 meg buffer, 7200 rpm drive. Perhaps if I just partition my new drive in half. Two 80 gig partitions?? Of course, I will also update the Mobo bios as well.
Re: About the 137 gig limit???
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Tue May 24, 2005 9:37 pmby the_autopilot
RAID array's also will fix your woes.