How come my nice new shiny 500GB HDD only shows up as a 32GB drive?
XP on SP3, Celeron processor etc etc, it is a secondary drive for storage. HDD is a Toshiba bought from a good supplier.
I am OK at this - plugged in, set as a slave with wee clippy thing; started PC, initialised in control panel and then did a partition of drive (only allowed me 32GB) and away we go...
What the file system?
(Should be in properties of the drive, maybe right click to get it. It might be something like FAT or NTFS)
Also, is it a really old motherboard? Could be a Bios limit. What size is the other drive?
NTFS - yes, old 'puter
And the size of the other drive?
What connection? How is it setup/recognised in the BIOS?
there was a limitation of 32gig with older BIOSes
Post up the model number - IIRC some have jumpers on that restrict the size that the drive reports itself as.
Also - make/model of the motherboard is critical ( or at the very lease model number and make of the computer and year of manufacture )