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 Yesterdays Hero

Joined: 1/24/2008
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500gig hard drive showing 50gig.
Posted: 5/16/2008 7:25:57 AM
Went out and bought a 500gig HD and lobbed it in my tower. Works fine, except I get the warning that I'm running out of HD space. I check Properties and it shows it's using 50gigs and that's it.

Yet I head into BIOS and check it, and it says it's 500gigs.

Anyone have any idea how to get back the other 450gigs I seem to be missing, without losing the data of the 50gigs currently on there?

Thx muchly
 TheS0urce

Joined: 4/7/2008
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500gig hard drive showing 50gig.
Posted: 5/16/2008 8:16:02 AM
What operating system are you using? Xp? Sp1,sp2 or sp3?
 She Doesnt Exist

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500gig hard drive showing 50gig.
Posted: 5/16/2008 9:44:40 AM
Chances are you need to reformat it to NTFS - if that doesn't work check your jumper settings, some times they can minimize the drive size.

If you're not wanting to lose that data, get a copy of partition magic or something like that. This will leave the primary partition alone (ie. c drive) and allow you to create 1/2/3 other partitions.

Hope this helps.
 Yesterdays Hero

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500gig hard drive showing 50gig.
Posted: 5/16/2008 9:49:59 AM

What operating system are you using? Xp? Sp1,sp2 or sp3?


Xp and sp2 at the moment.

Most likely a partitioning problem, but I've no clue how to get into partitioning.
 She Doesnt Exist

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500gig hard drive showing 50gig.
Posted: 5/16/2008 9:51:10 AM
With the tool I told you about above. (Parition magic).... Or have a tech come out and do it, either or...
 Yesterdays Hero

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500gig hard drive showing 50gig.
Posted: 5/16/2008 1:18:21 PM
Got the answer. Thx much for the help all.
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