How do I Unlock my true Hardrive size XP Pro

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"Moocycles" <Moocycles@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>I want to get my hard drives space back how do I do it?
> My WD 160 reads as 127 GB and is connected as Master to IDE 1 of Promise
> Controller Card.
> My WD 180 reads as 149 Gb and is connected as Slave to IDE 1 of
> Motherboad.
> The two smaller drives work fine.
>
> I have a unique computer config, but basically here it is:
> One 40 Gb WD Caviar ATA100 <Basic> Application Drive C:
> One 160 GB WD WD Caviar ATA100 <Dynamic> Media Drive D:
> One 180 Gb WD Caviar ATA100 <Basic> Media Drive E:
> One Seagate 2 Gb ATA100 <Basic> Scratch DIsk, and Virtual Memory Partition
> F:
>
> Other info is:
> MSI K7D Master, Dual AMD 1800+'s, Cd and DVD drive attatched to IDE 2 on
> Mobo.

I'm not sure why the 180GB is reading 149GB but are they formatted NTFS or
FAT32?
Because I believe FAT32 only reads up to 127GB.
That doesn't explain the 149GB reading but it may at least be a place to
start.