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GT40FIED · 12-17-2006, 08:07 PM

Well...I've got it hooked up and everything and windows recognizes that a drive is there, but there's no extra drive under "my computer". I got into computer management and tried using storage disk management. I got the drive initialized, but I can't find any way to format it. It's showing that there's 186.13GB which seems to be a known problem with these drives. I could fix it with a BIOS patch, but it seems like a lot of work for a missing 13GB. Bah...I'm confused. Ideas?

EDIT: Ok...I think it's working now. I used the partition tool which sort of worked but not really. Then I just basically forced it to format by trying to copy a file to the new drive so it would throw an error message at me. So 186 extra GB of space is looking pretty sweet right now. Better than the usual 80GB, anyway.

12-17-2006, 08:07 PM	#5
GT40FIED Best...mod...ever Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: At the end of the longest line Age: 42 Posts: 7,451	Well...I've got it hooked up and everything and windows recognizes that a drive is there, but there's no extra drive under "my computer". I got into computer management and tried using storage disk management. I got the drive initialized, but I can't find any way to format it. It's showing that there's 186.13GB which seems to be a known problem with these drives. I could fix it with a BIOS patch, but it seems like a lot of work for a missing 13GB. Bah...I'm confused. Ideas? EDIT: Ok...I think it's working now. I used the partition tool which sort of worked but not really. Then I just basically forced it to format by trying to copy a file to the new drive so it would throw an error message at me. So 186 extra GB of space is looking pretty sweet right now. Better than the usual 80GB, anyway. __________________ 1984 1/2 Mustang GT350 #842, Faster than you...nuff said Anna Fan Club President/Dictator Someday, in the event that mankind actually figures out what it is that this world actually revoles around, thousands of people are going to be shocked and perplexed that it was not them. Sometimes this includes me. "If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever." - George Orwell Welcome to the new Amerika Last edited by GT40FIED : 12-18-2006 at 04:43 AM.