Just installed a 2nd hard drive in a Compaq Presario running Windows XP Home Multi Media. It's an 80GB but now formatted it shows only 31.4 GB with no more space available. Any ideas on how to get the full capacity back?
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Jump to PostXP Home multi media?
You mean XP Media Centre Edition?
Right click on the " my computer" icon and choose manage. One of the tabs on the left should be labelled something like "Local volume / Disk management". Post a screenshot of that page here.
Jump to PostI think you have reached the maximum capacity, which your IDE controllers recognize. I'm not sure what could the other reasons be but any Harddisks won't show size errors this way until and unless u reach the maximum capacity which in many cases is 120GB or you have formatted only …
Jump to PostIf your pc is old (circa 2000) then its bios probably has a cap of 32gb.
Try updating your BIOS maybe if this is the case?
Modern machines have a cap of 320 i think
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