Asus P4B533 and 100 gig WD1000

[goturk1]

Hello everyone:
I just built a new computer 6 months ago(it is old now ). It has Asus P4B533 motherboard and 40 gig wd400 and 100 gig WD1000 hard drive. I have Winxp and wondering, Any reason why my bios or the windows is recognizing the second hard drive as 32 gigs only??,

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[goturk1]

When i got the windowsxp i formatted both but without the ez bios from western digital it is formatting the second(100 gig one) drive only as a 32 gig one.

[SKYLINEGTR33MWJ]

You can also check the drive using any type of Hardrive Managing software.

I use that partition magic (powerquest) and it is helpful when partitioning, formatting, and troubleshooting my hard drives.....

Its simple....... just start PM magic 8 and it reads your drives... gives you a picture on how your hard drive looks like.... partition size or filesystem, you can take care of the rest.... other than that.

Try using your WD Hard Drive Installation Diskette to format the whole thing, to your likings... and that shoudln't give you any problems. Transfer all your data to your huge 100gb drive and format the 40gb unless its where you have XP! installed.

I have two WD hardrives myself.... and use it when something goes wrong.... (something always goes wrong with xp)

[Sweeper]

just curious... after 6 months are you just now noticing the 100GB HD is only showing 32GB? Also, have you checked your BIOS to see if there is an update that might correct this problem.

[goturk1]

I appologize, now that i am reading the post i did not make myself clear, I am using EZ Bios(western digital hard disk installation utility) so my drive is being as 100 gig but i was wondering anyway around that. Thanks for the replies

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