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Help with hard drive
I recently found a decent old computer for my sister and her fiance to use until they can buy a new one. It apparently has a 40GB hard drive, according to the label on it and what I read in its information in my BIOS, but when I look at its capacity in its properties, it's only 26GB.
Could anyone tell me why this would me?
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Ultimate Member
It may not be fully partitioned . Use the hard drive manuf.'s diagnostic to check and test the drive . I would zero write the drive also before installing a new OS on it .
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Mod w/ an attitude
Or maybe someone changed the drive and put a 30GB dive in it instead.
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Ultimate Member
Go to Run> and type:
diskmgmt.msc
See is there is any unallocated space available. The previous owner may have installed the OS and not realised to format the remaining unallocated HDD space.
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Mod w/ an attitude
Or the BIOS may be limited to a 30GB max. drive size.
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