Help, my newly installed HDD is showing 0 Free Space.

[burnselk]

My newly installed Seagate160GB IEDE HDD shows all 137GB used?
Question Details: I just installed this slave drive to use as storage. It was not showing up as being installed but when I finally got it there by using the Seagate install disk, it now shows up as drive D but it is totally full......0 free space.

What can I do? Can I format or erase whatever is doing this? What could do this?

Maybe when I was asked to select the allocation for the drive (I thought I was partitioning the drive) and I selected all 137GB that's what left me with 0 free space on the drive......I'm at a lose. Please help. I need some advise on how to empty my new HDD.......there is nothing installed on it. I don't understand.

Thank you.

P.S. I don't have SP2 on my computer so I can only get 137GB out of the 160GB on the disk. Anyone know a workaround on this?

[fibbingbear]

Question: are you using Windows?

I assume you are. If so, you'll need to format the new drive using NTFS.

As to only getting 137 gigabytes:

The drive is advertised as 160gb. They probably mean 160 * 10^9 bytes. Sometimes bytes are represented in a base2 notation, which would mean it really has 149 * 2^30 bytes. So the drive probably really only has 149gb in it. It's confusing, arguably misleading, but everyone does it (and to make matters worse, computer scientists switch between the notations as well). Not sure how you're losing another 12gb on that though.

[setarip_old]

One of my systems (XP SP2) includes a 160"GB" drive that yields 152.6"Gb"...

[burnselk]

Question: are you using Windows? I assume you are. If so, you'll need to format the new drive using NTFS.

Yes, Windows XP Home.....and formatting it did the job. Thanks fibbingbear.

[fibbingbear]

One of my systems (XP SP2) includes a 160"GB" drive that yields 152.6"Gb"...

Hi Setarip_old -- it could be that the drive is not exactly 160GB (perhaps 164GB?) and they chose to round down when displaying that information.

Note that 164 * 10^9 GB --> 152.7 * 2^30 GB

[setarip_old]

@burnselkI don't have SP2 on my computer so I can only get 137GB out of the 160GB on the disk. Anyone know a workaround on this?Not a workaround - Install SP2 to eliminate that 137Gb ceiling (And other positive fixes to the XP O/S).

Why haven't you initially done so?

[Video Dude]

I don't have SP2 on my computer so I can only get 137GB out of the 160GB on the disk. Anyone know a workaround on this?

Enable support on the hardware. Perform a BIOS update that adds LBA48 support or use a PCI IDE controller card that supports LBA48.