Hi to everyone I have just bought a 80 gb hardisk, but my system doesn't detect the full 80 gb , infact it detects only 32 gb, also it detects only 192 mb of ram. My Pc is an old one, which i purchased it in 2000 , configuration is Pentium III , 500 mhz Some of my friends told me that it can be solved by putting some card Is it true??? and what type of card it is??? plz help as i cant afford to buy a new motherboard
right click on my computer, click manage and then disk management. u shud see your hard drvie there and from my guess, there should be another partition which u have to format.
no this is not the problem , problem is with motherboard's capability to address the space of RAM and harddisk
so ur sure that there is only one partition. i wud leave a bios flash till last but thats wat i can think of now. does the drive work at 80gig on a different computer
yes it is working on my friend's system, see it not only the hardisk, also it does not detect more than 192 mb of RAM
if your friends system is pretty new, say p4, then i think your bios is limiting u to only having 32 gig of space and no more than 192mb of ram. how big is your ram module anyway
Your motherboard's chipset doesn't support over 32GB hard drives. While you may be able to get a new BIOS for your motherboard and flash that, the most surefire way I know of would be to get a PCI-based IDE controller card and have the 80GB hard drive run off of that. Depending on where you get it, they run anywhere from $15 to $50 (US). The file system has nothing to do with this. It's a hardware addressing scheme. They used to think that 32GB was huge.
