Registered: 11/15/07
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Your old drive is set to master. Set the new drive to slave and check the connections and you're good to go. On the back of the drive there should be a print out of the jumper settings.
Perfect. That's all set. Now I have a question. I installed a Seagate 320GB ATA100 HD into my MDD and it's only showing as having 298GB available. What gives? Is there a way to access the other 20gigs?
Registered: 10/16/04
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Loc: Vancouver, BC Canada
Originally Posted By: "wyclef "
Perfect. That's all set. Now I have a question. I installed a Seagate 320GB ATA100 HD into my MDD and it's only showing as having 298GB available. What gives? Is there a way to access the other 20gigs?
Thats because hard drive companies consider 1000KB as 1MB rather than the actual 1024KB that computers see as 1MB. This is the case with all HD's. Thats why 80GB are really 74GB, 120gb are really 112GB etc.
I have the same 320GB seagate in my MDD and also get 298. BTW.. there is no limit to how big a drive MDD's can take.
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There is a size limit on drives for any comp. Its just the old limit was 128GB, and the new one is astronomical in comparison. Real drives are nowhere near it yet.
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