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Old 31 August 2007, 10:45 AM
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just stuck a 2nd 80gb hd into the pc but vista is only recognising it as 30gb, how do you get it to format to the full 80gb?
Old 31 August 2007, 12:07 PM
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is your bios up to the job?
Old 31 August 2007, 12:12 PM
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Yep sounds like a bios issue to me as well. If you go into the bios, what does it list the drive as?
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Also take a look here...

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If you are formatting the drive as fat32 instead of ntfs, then Vista seems to have a 32gb limit on partition sizes. I've no idea why, but personally I'd use ntfs anyway, (it's much more efficient).
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sorted it, was one of dells bios peculiarities...
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