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    dualcore38130 Posts: 25, Reputation: 1
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    Apr 3, 2007, 11:08 PM
    Hard disk drives
    My hard disk has 160 gb when I formatted it showed 127gb I want my memory to get back so what should I do,starting only it is showing 127 gb and now I am left out with only one hard disk drive please suggest me what to do?
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    Apr 3, 2007, 11:17 PM
    Google this,
    It happens to most people trying to use large harddrives the cpu bios caps off at 127gb. You can use a program like partionmagic to fully unlock it, but typically it requires it to be reformated completely...
    Best of luck
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    Apr 4, 2007, 07:52 PM
    Looks like the bios does not recognize drives over 137 Gig. There is a Microsoft fix if you are using Windows 2000, and another fix here if your are using Windows XP with SP1. Update to SP2 will include the fix.
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