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28. January 2009 @ 15:35 |
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Hey i just bought a external casing for my 200GB samsung hard drive, when i put the hard drive in the casing and connected my hard drive externally it is only showing up in my computer as 97GB and its empty. Why is this is there anyway to get back the missing 103 Gb ? If anyone could shed some light on this thanks very much as im a noob at this kinda stuff.
Dont know if you need to know my system requirements but here they are anyways.
Acer aspire m3600
Intel core 2 duo E4500 @ 2.2Ghz
2 gig of ram
32 bit operating system
Ati radeon 4640 graphics card.
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29. January 2009 @ 13:06 |
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check with external case manufacturer as sometime external enclosures have a capacity limit. does the bios see the drive & if so then what capacity?
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29. January 2009 @ 18:08 |
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Originally posted by ddp:
check with external case manufacturer as sometime external enclosures have a capacity limit. does the bios see the drive & if so then what capacity?
It says that its 500gb maximum so i wonder why its only showing up 97gb when its empty ? I checked and the bios doesnt see the drive should it ?
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29. January 2009 @ 20:23 |
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Put the drive back in your PC. If it shows up with all 200GB, you know your new external case is defective.
Some bios will see the drive in the "hard disk boot order" area, but others will not, depends on who made the mainboard.
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30. January 2009 @ 03:22 |
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Originally posted by KillerBug:
Put the drive back in your PC. If it shows up with all 200GB, you know your new external case is defective.
Some bios will see the drive in the "hard disk boot order" area, but others will not, depends on who made the mainboard.
i cant put it in my pc as mc pc hard drive is sata and its an ide hard drive thats in the external hard drive, should i have mentioned that ? Il look to see if it shows in the "hard disk boot order" area.
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30. January 2009 @ 10:25 |
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Does your PC have any IDE controllers for the optical drives?
I'm sure there are some SATA-only mobos but most mobos still have one IDE interface for optical drives.
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30. January 2009 @ 12:04 |
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Nope theres no ide controllers for the optical drives they are sata, is this why its showing up 100gb less storage space on my external HDD ?
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30. January 2009 @ 12:19 |
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No, I was just trying to think of a way for you to verify the drive capacity with the native (IDE) interface.
BTW, re:
"it is only showing up in my computer as 97GB and its empty."
Was there data on this drive before you put it in the enclosure?
Where are you seeing that the capacity is 97GB? (What program? My Computer, Disk Administrator?)
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30. January 2009 @ 13:32 |
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Originally posted by dailun:
No, I was just trying to think of a way for you to verify the drive capacity with the native (IDE) interface.
BTW, re:
"it is only showing up in my computer as 97GB and its empty."
Was there data on this drive before you put it in the enclosure?
Where are you seeing that the capacity is 97GB? (What program? My Computer, Disk Administrator?)
Yeah windows was installed in it when it was in my other computer when i put it in the enclosure and linked it up to my new pc i formatted it through my computer. Its showing as 97GB in my computer and when i click in it it is empty. i havent got a clue about this stuff so im totally confused whats happening, thanks for helping me.
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30. January 2009 @ 14:33 |
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OK, Please humor me.
Start --> Settings --> Control Panel -->Computer Management -->Disk Management
Open the window and what do you see for the (now) external HDD? Do you show any unpartitioned space available?
If you right click on the box that says Disk 1 (or whatever the external HDD) is and select Properties, What information is displayed in the "Volumes" Tab?
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31. January 2009 @ 07:52 |
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Originally posted by dailun:
OK, Please humor me.
Start --> Settings --> Control Panel -->Computer Management -->Disk Management
Open the window and what do you see for the (now) external HDD? Do you show any unpartitioned space available?
If you right click on the box that says Disk 1 (or whatever the external HDD) is and select Properties, What information is displayed in the "Volumes" Tab?
Yeah it shows 100gb unallocated how do i join that to my other 97gb ?
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31. January 2009 @ 10:12 |
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OK, so in reality, you didn't "lose" anything. What you have is 100GB of unallocated space.
I don't know of an easy way that this can be "joined" to your existing data space. I know that Partition Magic could do this, but I don't know of any other utilities to do so.
I want to give the others a chance to chime in on this to see if they have another solution. My solution would be to:
1)Partition the 100GB as a new drive
or
2)Copy the data from your existing partition somewhere else and then delete/re-partition the 200GB to one big drive.
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31. January 2009 @ 12:27 |
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You can use the free easus partition manager to resize the 97gb partition to take up all the unallocated space. That's the best way to do it.
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31. January 2009 @ 12:42 |
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Originally posted by jony218:
You can use the free easus partition manager to resize the 97gb partition to take up all the unallocated space. That's the best way to do it.
Thanks just used your method and it worked sweet, thanks to everybody that posted help its great that people take time to help others. Thanks everybody :)
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31. January 2009 @ 19:53 |
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I'm glad there was a free way to do it.
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