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Hard drive has lost capacity! How can I recover the drive to its original size?

Asked by: jet0654

I have a 1 TB hard drive that was in a system as 1 on the drives in a RAID array.  I removed it from that system and placed it in another system as a stand alone drive.  When installing Windows XP only 127 GB shows as the capacity of the drive.  Also, it only shows 127 GB if you put it in a working system as a second drive.

How can I recover the drive to its original 1 TB capacity?

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2009-10-09 at 19:17:17ID24801022
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Hard Drive Capacity

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Windows 98 Operating System

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Answers

 

by: vikshiPosted on 2009-10-09 at 19:30:07ID: 25540463

I don't think you can archive this in windows 98 since it has a drive space limit.

http://www.dewassoc.com/kbase/hard_drives/hard_drive_size_barriers.htm

 

by: wrmichaelPosted on 2009-10-09 at 20:25:38ID: 25540680

your compute bios may not recognize it either.

did you use disk manager to see what it saw?

how about fdisk?

 

by: garycasePosted on 2009-10-09 at 20:40:57ID: 25540732

128GB/137GB (in "computerese"/"disk-drive-maker-ese") is the limit of 28-bit logical block addressing.

That's the issue you're seeing here. You're most-likely installing the original, pre-service-pack version of XP. If you slipstream SP2 (or SP3) and install from that CD; or if you simply install and than apply the service packs, then the full capacity of the drive will be seen, as once the service packs are installed XP will have 48-bit LBA support.

As for using this drive with Windows 98, it IS possible to support 48-bit addressing in Windows 98, but there are many constraints when doing so -- in particular both Scan Disk and Defrag will cause major corruption if you ever run them, as they do not support 48-bit addressing. It's simply best to not use drives that exceed the 28-bit addressing threshold with a 9x OS.

 

by: jet0654Posted on 2009-10-10 at 03:46:59ID: 25541751

Thanks guys for the help!
Hopefully, you will excuse my dumbness since it is my first post and it should not have been under "Windows 98 Operating System".

It sounds like garycase has the correct explanation since I checked the XP disk that I was using and it is pre-service-pack version.  I have some XP disks at the office that are SP2.  I am going to try one of those.

Again, sorry for posting in the wrong zone.  I will hopefully do better next time!

 

by: jet0654Posted on 2009-10-10 at 04:06:25ID: 25541805

Everyone,
After I sent my last reply I remembered that I had an old Windows 2000 Server CD.  So I put it in the PC and started the installation and presto the 1TB showed up. (well I think it was about 953 MB but you know that story).  So garycase was correct.  The problem was that I was using a pre-service-pack copy of XP.

Thanks again for you help! It is greatly appreciated.

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