Missing Giga-Bytes...!

[Fozzer]

LOL!

You guys are prattling on and on about Paul's KT133 chipset when he has an NFORCE 2 (ultra 400?) CHIPSET as he clearly stated in the first page of this thread.

Paul, you really need to go into BIOS and turn LBA on. (Large Block Addressing)

I do take the occasional incursion into my Boot-Up BIOS....

...out of curiosity...

...but there is nothing in my Award V6 BIOS which says;

"Hey F!....Have a peek here!...This is where you turn your LBA on!.."......!

...which is probably why it never gets turned on!... ...!

F..... ...!

...similarly, there is nothing in my Award BIOS that gives any options for AGP size/speed, Memory options, etc...etc...!

[NickN]

[quote]LOL!

You guys are prattling on and on about Paul's KT133 chipset when he has an NFORCE 2 (ultra 400?) CHIPSET as he clearly stated in the first page of this thread.

Paul, you really need to go into BIOS and turn LBA on. (Large Block Addressing)

Other than that, read Nick's first post in this thread over again carefully. I was surprised at your post that followed Nick's first response, you seemed to just give up hope when a solution seemed imminent .....

[NickN]

This is strange.. the manual only specifies LBA supported in the onboard RAID system

It mentions nothing about LBA elsewhere and nothing under the drive properties

I do know in the old days there were a few drives that needed the tool from the manufacture to enable support for BIOSs that did not have the setting.. like MAXBLAST as I recall

This may be an issue with a newer hard drive and a very old BIOS too


Partitioning the drive in DOS using a 3rd party tool may also be the answer.. they system may then recognize 2 128GB partitions on the hard drive

[Fozzer]

Peculiariar and more peculiarier...as Alice said...

BIOS confirms: 250 GB...(HDD LBA or Auto)...

Pie Chart says 127 GB.

This says BOTH!.....127/240...>>>

;

[NickN]

OK now the plot thickens

It looks to me like you simply have unallocated space that needs to be formatted


click START - CONTROL PANEL - ADMINISTRATIVE TOOLS - COMPUTER MANAGEMENT - DISK MANAGEMENT


does that disk management window show the unallocated space as a separate drive without an assigned letter?

If so, right click... FORMAT

If not you may need a 3rd party disk partition tool to access the unallocated space and make it a partition, then MERGE the new partition into the original if you want to full 250 in onle partition

[Fozzer]

OK now the plot thickens

It looks to me like you simply have unallocated space that needs to be formatted


click START - CONTROL PANEL - ADMINISTRATIVE TOOLS - COMPUTER MANAGEMENT - DISK MANAGEMENT


does that disk management window show the unallocated space as a separate drive without an assigned letter?

If so, right click... FORMAT

If not you may need a 3rd party disk partition tool to access the unallocated space and make it a partition, then MERGE the new partition into the original if you want to full 250 in onle partition

You are right..!!

...getting somewhere.... ;)...>>>>



Hopefully, the unused portion can be formatted without destroying the used portion?..

Useful Admin tool!......!

F.... ...!

Strange that my original one-piece Format split the disk in half!

[NickN]

Formatting just that unallocated space area wont hurt the first section

just dont FORMAT the first part!

[Fozzer]

Finally Sorted... [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif]...!

Ta, Nick....

Saved your tips in my, "Things to do, when the the journey is upstream, and all the Paddles have been washed overboard", Folder.... [smiley=thumbsup.gif]...!

Lots of useful "Admin' Tool Tips"... ...!

Got two equal size partitions now in my 250 GB Disk....
...so my living will not be in vain!... ... ...!

Cheers......!

F....as Diskusting as always!... 8-)... ...!

P.S....SP2 was an independent CD installation into my existing Win XP Pro.... ...!

[MWISimmer]

I love it when a story has a happy ending..



Great thread lads, very informative input from everyone.

[lunitic_8]

Sorry second post in a row... This is a long shot... but Can you do this?

Right click my computer... click on mange....click on disk management

Look around there for empty HDD space

SCREENIE:

Should look like that. I think anything not blue or green is not in use :-/

i love how you E:/ drive is named ME STUFF LMAO

[NickN]

Mazza told Paul how to find what I pointed out and apparently he didn

[Fozzer]

[quote]
Mazza told Paul how to find what I pointed out and apparently he didn