doug Posted December 26, 2006 Report Share Posted December 26, 2006 Have been trying to install a larger 320 GB HDD as my data disk. However even though I've formatted it it is only producing 127GB. Running XPPro on a K7S5A mobo. there doesn't appear to be any restriction on size according to my mobo manual. Am I limited to the 127 GB or should I go for several partitions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rong Posted December 26, 2006 Report Share Posted December 26, 2006 I had that when I had a 300 gig external but mine would do around 200, (not a problem as I wanted it to partition) and I think it may be something to do with FAT, and if you do NTFS you may be able to get the lot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted December 26, 2006 Report Share Posted December 26, 2006 Is that XP Pro with SP1 or ideally SP2? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug Posted December 26, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 26, 2006 Nah I've done a ntfs format. Been doing a bit of browsing and it would appear that there is an upper limit as to the size of drive that can be managed by Windows running on older mobo's. Have managed to get a download from Seagate which is supposed to work around this. Will keep you in formed.PS SP2 Chris. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug Posted December 27, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 27, 2006 Resolved! The Seagate facility did a registry tweak which overcame the 127 GB limit. So what on earth am I going to do with 298 GB of storage? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dadyassa Posted December 27, 2006 Report Share Posted December 27, 2006 Resolved! The Seagate facility did a registry tweak which overcame the 127 GB limit. So what on earth am I going to do with 298 GB of storage?Thought the same thing when I got an 8 gb years ago :lol: :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted December 27, 2006 Report Share Posted December 27, 2006 Resolved! The Seagate facility did a registry tweak which overcame the 127 GB limit. So what on earth am I going to do with 298 GB of storage?Set up a storage warehouse. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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