40GB HardDisk Has 32GB Only ? Why ?

HAHAHA, well they put the 32GB limit as some computers can't detect higher sized drives. This is because the BIOS was made too long ago to cope with it. Often a bios upgrade can fix this problem if this option is supported. But yeah thats why that options there, as your computer's bios can detect 40GB its fine to change the setting. Some older drives have a 2GB limit one of mine do, its only a 20GB segate though

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Well, first Gb, Mb and Kb in hard disk manufacturar's terms is always x 1000, ie, 1Kb = 1000bytes, 1Mb = 1000Kb, 1Gb = 1000Mb, while in OS terms, it's always x 1024, ie, 1Kb = 1024bytes, 1Mb = 1024Kb, 1Gb=1024Mb, thus the actually capacity is always less than the adventised capacity~
The another point is the partition format you use, whether you use NTFS or FAT32 or other formats, added overheads and consume some space inside the hard drive. For example, FAT have file allocation table, NTFS also have it in addition to the security settings. Other formats also have its own overhead. Thus the actual space you can use is always less than the adventised one.

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Same on Apple computers, you lose some of the hard drive to the system resources. The way it works is the system (no matter what you use, Apple or Windows) will take what it needs first, just as it takes the ram it needs before you can have it for an application.

The larger the hard drive, the more you "lose" to the system. Doesn't matter if it is an external or internal drive, you still don't get to use it all.

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"Also make sure that the hard drive does not have a shunt over the jumpers that set it to run at a smaller storage size"

It quite annoys me that people don't read all advice given, especially in being repetitive, but as long as you solved the problem that's all that counts, but making sure to read everything, it can be an advantage, unless of course it's absolutely irrelevant to your situation.


MC

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have you tried to correctly insert the jumper in your hard disk. If you have mistakenly set the jumper to make only 32G available then you will have 32G only... See its manual if you have correctly put the jumper.. in the jumper there are 4 options.
1. Slave
2. Master
3. Auto Select (i Guess)
4. is to set the hard disk to use only 32G of space....

and try not to format HD again in win98... why not use partition magic if you already have a running WInXP OS....

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