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valhalla
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      03-01-2008

ok heres my problem ive just got a new machine running ultimate x64, the
main hard drive is a sata drive no problems with this .
ive also got a samsung hd400ld ata (400 gb)

ive put this in the machine and reformatted it (ntfs) its done this ok
but now its showing one partition and its saying that its only
31.50 gb, i would epect to lose some space but not 360gb,

can someone plz point me in the right direction thanx


ps ive tried master/slave/ no jumper


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      03-01-2008
Did you perchance choose to format it as FAT32? Vista and XP both will not
create a FAT32 volume greater than 32GB.

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> ok heres my problem ive just got a new machine running ultimate x64, the
> main hard drive is a sata drive no problems with this .
> ive also got a samsung hd400ld ata (400 gb)
>
> ive put this in the machine and reformatted it (ntfs) its done this ok
> but now its showing one partition and its saying that its only
> 31.50 gb, i would epect to lose some space but not 360gb,
>
> can someone plz point me in the right direction thanx
>
>
> ps ive tried master/slave/ no jumper
>
>
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      03-01-2008

no m8 i ive put this in the machine and reformatted it (ntfs) file


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valhalla
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      03-01-2008

sorted it m8 used another cable and went through the jumpers agai

than

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