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Hmm 80GB hard drive to 31.4GB?

  • 14-03-2007 2:54am
    #1
    dazftw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,728 ✭✭✭


    I have an 80GB hard drive that im trying to sell and I decided tonight I would format it!

    Ive sold most of the other parts from the pc and im on a crap pentium 3 with 25mb of ram now..

    set the jumers to slave popped into the pc it came up in windows that I could format it but it only had 31.4GB of space on it?

    Anyways I tried to format it that way using using the NTFS way and it got to the end and failed so I formatted it with the FAT32 way.. thats worked and it has been formatted but its on 31.4GB...?

    As far as im aware I didnt change any volumes to it to make it that size!

    Any help would be great thanks!

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  • #2
    Snowbat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,065 ✭✭✭Snowbat


    Did you format it from XP? If yes, you've run into Microsoft's strategic decision to limit XP's FAT32 formatting to 32GB only. Format again using a 98 boot floppy or Linux.

    http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/choosing_between_ntfs_fat_and_fat32.mspx?mfr=true

    FAT32
    • Volumes from 512 MB to 2 TB.
    • In Windows XP, you can format a FAT32 volume up to 32 GB only.


  • #3
    8T8
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,757 ✭✭✭8T8


    If the drive failed to complete a straight forward format under NTFS I would be concerned about it's reliability.

    Download the diagnostic tools from the manufacturers website and give it a run through with the software to make sure the drive is okay.


  • #4
    dazftw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,728 ✭✭✭dazftw


    The drive is about 4 years old now and I never had problems this was my 1st time formatting through windows aswell! I think I might try later on is put the XP cd in and boot from that and format it to install windows!

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