250GB Hard Drive not recognized completely....only 137GB....Help!?
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Grab the updates for xp home ( ie xp service packs ) SP 1 and defintly 2 includes some support for large hard drive support. The main factor in getting large hard drive support working ( will be support for it in the bios ) namely 48-bit LBA ( Large Block Addressing ). Restart the machine and make sure that this is enabled in the bios, if you dont have it in your bios you will most likely have to do a bios update and then enable it.\n\nLook here :\n\nhttp://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B303013\n\nhttp://www.largeharddrivesupport.windowsreinstall.com/winxp.htm\n\nHopefully this helps :)
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well the disks won't help you, you may have too much stored on the harddrive already, try deleting some large or unimportant files from your computer and try again, no promise it will work.  If you have any more questions about this, feel free to e-mail me!
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I think you should start copying your files....!I too lost my hard drive and lost all the data...!I can give you a link that deals with hard drive problems. Some RAM/hard drive problems can be easily fixed yourself by using easily available tools. I found the info at http://fixit.in  useful. Try this site, if you can get what is required.
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I can give you a link that deals with hard drive problems.\nSome RAM/hard drive problems can be easily fixed yourself by using easily available tools. I found the info at http://fixit.in  useful. Try this site, if you can get what is required.
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Find My Computer. You'll see Drive C for your computer's hard drive, Drive D for the DVD rom (or whatever your system has)...\n\n... anyways look for a new drive letter. Look for one with ~about~ 256MB of free space. Voila that's the new drive.\n\n(NOTE: if you have the USB drive plugged in, and don't see it on the My Computer drive list... then you may need to add a driver for it).\n\nNow that you have the drive letter... open it. Then you can simply DRAG files from your computer .. onto this drive (up to 256MB) and that's it.\n\nRemember its best to use the Safely Remove Hardware icon to RELEASE the USB drive before pulling it off the laptop.\n\nI hope this helped.
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Right click on my computer --> manage\n\nGo to disk management and post back and let me know if it sees the hard drive.\n\nDo you have any thing on the hard drive ( I know you said it as new ) but if you have any data on there and you wipe it, you will obviously lose it.\n\nAnyway if not then just format it in disk management and it should then appear in windows.\n\nIf thats not the case then please post back with more specific info , ie motherboard make and model.\n\nIf you need help with getting that info post back as well.
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You can format by using a widoows startup disc. Or simply right click on the drve icon and select format action.  I can give you a link that deals with hard drive problems.Some RAM/ hard drive problems can be easily fixed yourself by using easily available tools. I found the info at http://fixit.in useful
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I have used Partition Magic with great success.  Keep your 20Gb drive as primary master, and install your new 250Gb drive as a slave or on the secondary IDE channel.  Keep in mind, whatever software you use will not be doing merely a copy, but will also write to the Boot Master Record on the 250 Gb drive to designate it as a bootable drive.  Once your software finishes, shut down, and swap the two drives.  Surprising that the Seagate s/w failed to help you.
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Go to the properties of C drive and click on Disk Clean up it will take time because your system has huge unwanted data, but it will work wait for some time. Hope it will work !
261194
Use Fdisk to delete the partition then Reinstall Windows. Doubt its a dead harddrive
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Looks like you have done most of the troubleshooting. Call up Dell. They would assist you in probably replacing the drive if the system is within contracts.\n\nBut they might ask you to repeat the steps you carried out and a few more, just to make sure its not the fault with the operating system.\n\nGood Luck!
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The best way will be use the HDD as slave to some other harddisk and tranfer the data.\n\nIn safe mode USB drives won't work, because there only the minimal resources are loaded. \n\nIf you can log into safe mode try restoring your machine to a previous stable point.
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bad hdd, or you don't have the proper drivers, or it's not comnpatible with those systems
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Well u should take it to a technician, and only if they will guarantee in writing not to lose your files.  Formatting will definately lose your files.  And, also, u have to delete windows from the old drive too.
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will it boot into safemode (f8 on boot)? if so do a system restore ... if not ur sol i think ...there wont be any other backup unless you made one ... if you know what files then pull ur drive and stick it in the machine ur using now and copy the files you need to the system folders ...
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ok, to start with it is not your bios, it is not the cables, it is not the jumpers, if any of those were not detecting the drive, windows couuldn't find it in add new hardware, more than likely it is in your registry.\ncheck these tips here, I don't know your operating system or hardware configuration,so I can't be more specific in helping you, but the page might have the anwer\nhttp://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1218041&page=1
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have you reinstalled the driver for this drive? if you go into my computer is your drive there? if not it sounds like you need to go into the bios and change the drive settings