why dont computer show full capacity of hard drive?
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some capacity is taken by cluster and is not shown
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Usually lack of memory or space on the hard drive.  Try Cleanmgr.exe - its in Windows to clean up your hard drive. you may need to get more memory in your machine.\n\nWhat is the question given by the computer ?
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Check how much storage space you have
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See - How to Increase Free Space on Your Hard Disk\n\nhttp://support.microsoft.com/kb/179798
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If it isn't automatically detecting it, you'll likely need to manually enter the information.  There should be an option in the bios to manually enter it - you'll likely need to consult your HD documentation to get the drive's geometry so you can input it.
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Try a combinition of using defragmenting and Ccleaner(free program) to clean all the junk off your PC. If that doesn't work it probably means your harddrive is too full or you have a spyware infection.. which will need a system scrub.
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Start by looking in your Documents, Movies, Pictures, and Desktop folders for old, large files that you know you don't need any more. You can through those out but you might want back them up first. \n\nAdding RAM won't help with your hard drive, but a second hard drive would probably be a good idea. Just make sure it's a Firewire drive and it should show up when you plug it in. You can format it HFS+ if it isn't already by using Disk Utility (/Applications/Utilities) and then move files to it. That should free up plenty of space. \n\nDepending on your needs, it may be time to consider getting a Macbook. They're lots more powerful, and they've got larger hard drives. The smallest one is now 60GB.
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you need enough memory. check your drive under my computer
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It could be poorly placed on your hard drive. If your drive is fragmented, that 2.5GB of remaining space will be little tiny open spaces all over, making it impossible for your processor to put information in those spots. \n\nTry defragging your computer. this will reposition the information creating larger sections to store the information.
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Space on hard drives is not memory, it is physically on a platter. You might have another partition that you don't know about, can't see. Try a partition managment software (look on download.com to find some free downloads.) If not, I would reformat the drive.
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If it is only accessing 31.4 gbs there definately something wrong. First check the Disk Manager to see if it can read the entire drive, to get there right click My computer and click the manage button. A window will pop up and one of the options on the left side will say "Disk Management" Click that and in the right box a screen will appear showing all your drives, see if your 300gb drive is registered as having 300gb or only the 31. To check this look at the bar next to the drive, if most of the bar is black and a small portion is green it just means that you did not partition and format the rest of the drive, right click the black area and click the Create Partition option. If it still only registers 31.4 gbs the drive could be corrupt or your chipset drivers do not support that hard drive. Also make sure that the 300 gb drive is formatted using NTFS and not FAT32. You are saying it's an older computer and that you installed XP on it. Check your Drivers for your Chipset by right clicking my computer, and clicking manage again. This time click the Device Manager option on the left. Scroll down to the System Devices and expand it by clicking the little + sign next to it. There you will see alot of drivers coming out of it. Look to see if the drivers for your pci bridge, processor to I/O, etc drivers have a long number in the driver name like "intel 96404384590 pci bridge" if it does not have those numbers in it than it is a generic driver that Windows has loaded because it does not have the correct driver, and you will need to find the driver for your motherboard to get full capabilities on your computer, including all the space in your hard drive. Hope this helps you.
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i think that you must turn on a setting in windows that will allow the detection of large hard drives. also i will check the installation make sure you have configured it right the jumper should be set to either master or slave depending on what it is.
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Ok, disk-clean up shows up everytime your hard-disk is almost full (say 95~99% full). It's not a bad idea to run disk clean up once maybe, but if it bothers you all the time here's what you can do:\n\n1. Open My Computer and right click on the disk/partiton that is almost full (the one that's annoying you).\n2. Click on "Properties" from the context menu that pops up.\n3. Click on the "Tools" tab.\n4. Uncheck the box that reads "Run Disk Cleanup Automatically when the space on this drive is low" (or something similar).\n5. Click OK \n\nAnd you're done!\n\nAlternatively, try moving files & folders from this drive (partition) to some other drive (partition) or deleting unnecessary files. A full or almost full hard-disk will kill your PC's performance.
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You probably need to update your BIOS, check with the manufacturer to see if an update is available.  Some older motherboards don't like seeing a 160GB hard drive and will limit your storage no matter what you do in Windows.
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Try www.geeks.com.  Look under hard drives.  Scroll to bottom of list under hard drive cases.
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maybe your hard disk is full so it's not working properly....try to delete unnecessary file or unuse file so that your computer will work properly
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Run scandisk. This is quite a common problem and scandisk usually makes windows report the correct disk space.