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RazgrizSeed · 02-21-2008, 12:00 PM

The hard drive is an SATA made by Fujitsu. I ordered it off of the Dell website specifically for my Inspiron E1505. This was the largest hard drive that I could order for my model laptop. When I first plugged it in the computer said it had 119 GB of space on it. After the CMS data transfer kit was done with it, it now says 55. On top of all of this, after I did the Killdisk, I cannot see it under My Computer. Before I started asking for help I couldn't even format it because of a "bad batch/parameter" and after the Killdisk I still get the same error. I could format it with windows when I could see the drive, but it would only format 52.4 GB of the space.

02-21-2008, 12:00 PM	#7 (permalink)
RazgrizSeed Registered User Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 56 OS: Windows XP Media Center Edition	Re: Help! New hard drive thinks it is half its true size! The hard drive is an SATA made by Fujitsu. I ordered it off of the Dell website specifically for my Inspiron E1505. This was the largest hard drive that I could order for my model laptop. When I first plugged it in the computer said it had 119 GB of space on it. After the CMS data transfer kit was done with it, it now says 55. On top of all of this, after I did the Killdisk, I cannot see it under My Computer. Before I started asking for help I couldn't even format it because of a "bad batch/parameter" and after the Killdisk I still get the same error. I could format it with windows when I could see the drive, but it would only format 52.4 GB of the space.