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I put a brand new 300GB hard drive into an external USB2 enclosure then use
Partition Magic 8 to change the drive from unallocated space, formatted the
drive & eventually transferred a few large files onto it from one of my
other 2 internal drives. I opened 'My Computer' only to see that it listed
the drives size as 128GB. which is less that half of what it should be
displaying, I opened Partition Magic 8 to see what it said. At the top it
showed the drive listed, without any partitions & said it was 168GB. The
usual box was fringed in yellow & it said it was bad. This drive wasn't
displayed at the bottom at all like as it normally does.
As for the drive being bad I find that I can open files on it & even played
a video file from it without a problem.
A few weeks ago I installed a 250GB drive onto another PC what had XP pro
with SP2 , like this one, without problem. Is there yet another size
barrier for drives over 250GB? If this isn't the problem then do you have
any ideas as to what it might be?
Thanks in advance
I put a brand new 300GB hard drive into an external USB2 enclosure then use
Partition Magic 8 to change the drive from unallocated space, formatted the
drive & eventually transferred a few large files onto it from one of my
other 2 internal drives. I opened 'My Computer' only to see that it listed
the drives size as 128GB. which is less that half of what it should be
displaying, I opened Partition Magic 8 to see what it said. At the top it
showed the drive listed, without any partitions & said it was 168GB. The
usual box was fringed in yellow & it said it was bad. This drive wasn't
displayed at the bottom at all like as it normally does.
As for the drive being bad I find that I can open files on it & even played
a video file from it without a problem.
A few weeks ago I installed a 250GB drive onto another PC what had XP pro
with SP2 , like this one, without problem. Is there yet another size
barrier for drives over 250GB? If this isn't the problem then do you have
any ideas as to what it might be?
Thanks in advance