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Formatted Hard Drive Only Shows Half the Disk Space

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by kolton

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Hiya,
I recently pulled my internal 250 GB hard drive from my main PC and put into one of my external USB cases to make it an External Drive. The PC Fried and I figured I'd just use it for external storage. I've done this before with no hiccups but this time it was different.

I plugged in the drive and it required formatting, so I formatted it and when complete I only had about 127 GB available. Now, its been a while since I touched the drive and I don't think it was ever partitioned.

The OS it was previously on was XP Pro, whereas the OS I formatted it on was Vista Ultimate.

I'm sure there's a way to reformat the drive under the pretense of its previous disk space allowance, but I'm not sure how.

Any help is surely appreciated!

Thanks,
Kolton

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by Former member

To re-size you might have to delete all partitions, if you ok with this. When done then make a new partition/format to the full size of the drive.

Please post back if you have any more problems or questions.

by kolton

I'll try that tonight, and see if it works. Thanks for the replies, I tried your advice with another drive I was having issues with and that helped out tremendously.

Thanks a ton!

by Former member

Please post back if you have any more problems or questions.

by amirza

Not all chip sets in external usb cases support large drives. Make sure the one you are using can support 250GB drives.

by oh smeg

Are supported under Vista there is one not Vista Compatible and it will give problems like this.

You need to look at what the Enclosure came in to see if it is listed as Vista Compatible. If it isn't you need a different enclosure to use with Vista.

Col

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