I have two 160GB Hard Drive in my computer but when I click properties they show that Windows XP can only detect 127GB of the 160GB. Is there anything you can do to have Windows see the whole size of the hard drives? Or does anyone know why Windows does not recognise the rest of my Hard Drive? Any help would be very helpful. Thanks.
read this link tho for seagate still same for all hd's. http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/faq/137_winxp.html
Do you have the latest service pack installed? If not then that is why you cant see the whole of the drive. Large drive support for drives over 127gb only came in with the service packs. If you do have it installed, but installed after Windows then the rest of your drive wont just magically appear. Windows will have taken 127gb to be the drive & the other 33gb will be sitting there as unpartitioned space. To access this space you need a program like Acronis Disk Director which will allow you to change the size of your partitions on the fly. Acronis Disk Director can be got here, http://www.acronis.com/enterprise/products/diskdirectorsuite/ or equally Partition Magic from Symantec will do just as good job.
