I have a Western Digital External 500GB HDD, and I took it apart, and put it in my PC! When I want to re-format my HDD, it says that the Capacity is 127GB! Why is that? Where did the other 373GB go? I need some help here! Thanks!
sounds liek you are running xpsp1, you need to get sp2. others will know the best way, but i think you can just download it from micro$oft
here is a genuine-advantage free mirror http://www.softwarepatch.com/windows/xpsp2.html Indeed, 127GB is what you'll see with no service packs. SP1 does support 500GB. If you'd rather just have SP1 than SP2, go here http://www.softwarepatch.com/windows/winxpsp1.html Note, you will still only see 465GB of the drive, as this is the limitation by formatting drives (use NTFS, it is far superior to FAT32).