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by kashmeir63

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Hi,
I have a windows 2000 server. The hard drive is not showing the correct capacity. It should be 8 gig but it is showing 4 gig. When I goto the disk configuration it shows 8 gig being used but when I go to display it in my computer it shows the capacity as 4 gig. I really do not want to reformat the hard drive. I also ran chkdsk and it found no problems. Is there a reason for the hard drive to not show correct capacity? Thanks in Advance

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by sysadmintech

It could be possible that you have two partitions or the harddrive was formatted incorrectly. Try converting your hardrive to NTFS partition, but first, Check to see if you have another drive letter perhaps (E)drive. If so then you have two partitions and your only looking at 1 partition. Hope this answers your question.

by sysadmintech

It could be possible that you have two partitions or the harddrive was formatted incorrectly. Try converting your hardrive to NTFS partition, but first, Check to see if you have another drive letter perhaps (E)drive. If so then you have two partitions and your only looking at 1 partition. Hope this answers your question.

by zaferus

Do you have any hardware or software RAID on the server? Please explain what this HDD is (model, mfg, SCSI or IDE, etc).

by zaferus

As well how old is the server, including what is the make/model of the main board, what BIOS does it have and version?

by bobsta

Does your drive show full capacity in BIOS?
Is it a SCSI drive? If so have you checked your Jumpers?
Otherwise, it does sound like a FAT issue, run CONVERT /? from a DOS prompt.

by gary56789

Often, these types of problems are the result of a corrupted driver. Download the most recent driver for the hard drive, delete the old driver and install the new driver in Device manager.

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