Hard drive

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  1. murphy543

    murphy543 Member

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    I have two hard drives. One is a 20 gb (the main one) and a 80 gb (secounday).. The problem is that it says its only a 31.8 gb when i go into.. How can i fix it???
     
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    is it formated in fat32 or ntfs?
     
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    ntfs
     
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    moved to correct forum. what does the bios show for the size of the 80gig?
     
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    Could it be possible that the drive was partitioned? And then formatted?

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    Do you have to separate physical hard-drives installed or do 2 hard drives just appear in the "My Computer" window?
     
    PeaInAPod, Apr 10, 2007
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    They are two drives that just appear in my computer
     
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