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Hard disk beyond 32 GB not recognised

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by subhashanarayan

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Hi,
Recently I have purchased 80 GB HDD and partitioned 20,20 and 4GB in windows NT 4.0. After commiting the changes and restart it is not displaying rest of the un partitioned space. i tried deleting all the partitions , now it is showing only 32 GB. it is not recognising rest of the space.
CAn anybody help me ??

Regards,
Subhasha H.L

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by pinoy_teknik

That's because your are running Win NT, try win2000 and xp. It will recognized all. Also win98 suffer that bug.

Pinoy_Teknik

by thechas

I am assuming that the BIOS on your motherboard properly identifies the drive.
If not, I recommend starting out with a new drive controller card. ($30)

Options:

Partition Magic

A drive overlay program from the drive mfg. If you purchased aretail boxed drive, this may be on a diskette that came with the drive.
If not, or if you bought a bulk pack drive, check out the drive mfg web site.

Also, check out the links at www.fdisk.com/fdisk

There are many "work-arounds" and 3rd partyversions of fdisk.

Chas

by subhashanarayan

I tried with partition magic but it did not. Again I connect it as primary slave after some time it was showing 80 GB !!!.

Thanx to everybody.

Regards,
Subhasha

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