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80GB disk
I have a 80GB HD, but only show me 2GB.

Why? How I fixed?

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Old Nov 16, 2006, 10:52 AM   #2  
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Howdy and welcome to AMHD:

What operating system are you running??

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You need to repartition the drive. when you run FDISK, select to enable LBA (Large Block addressing). You may have to partition into 2 40g partitions.
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there is no another way, I finish doing it
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You can purchase Partition magic and use that to resize, but if you just did it it shouldn't take too much to redo it.
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