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500gb hard drive

Discussion in 'Storage and Networking' started by aries, Sep 26, 2006.

  1. aries Newcomer, in training

    i have a seagate 500gb hard drive and when i load windows xp on it only gives me 31 gb. i tried the seagate disk utility cd that came with the hard drive, after i formatted and partioned it i tried loading windows xp again on the partition and it sais that it is either damaged, full, or formatted wrong . what good is a 500gb hard drive when you only get 31 gb. can some one help me?
    aries, Sep 26, 2006
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  2. howard_hopkinso Newcomer, in training Posts: 25,949   +16

    Hello and welcome to Techspot.

    Just to let you know, I`ve deleted your other thread on this subject. Please don`t start any more threads for this. Thanks.

    Take a look HERE and see if it helps.

    Regards Howard :wave: :wave:
    howard_hopkinso, Sep 26, 2006
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