Vista limiting HDD space

qldlifestyle · Aug 21, 2007

:wave Has anyone come accross the problem of Vista not recognising the volume of a HDD above 298g?
I attempted to set up two partitions just to be able to access the full capacity of the drive (320g). I thought Vista was supposed to be able to recognise large capacity drives, anyway partitioning didn't give me any more than a total of 298g.
I have two of these HDDs and its the same situation in both.
They are Seagate 320g HDDs and I have a new install of Vista home premium 64 bit.

DavidGP · Aug 21, 2007

Hi

If the drives are 320GB then after formatting you will see less, this is natural and normal and not a Vista issue but one for all Windows version, rough guide http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showpost.php?p=661040&postcount=2 to what free space you will see after formatting.

qldlifestyle · Aug 22, 2007

Okay, that explains it. Thank you very much Halo.

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