Big Hard Drive?

[R. Wood]

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Allegedly, on Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 10:13:09PM -0500, Alfred stated:
> Hi: I needed a new Hard Drive, and decided on a 1/3 of a Terribyte, or
> 320 Gigs. 

I just got one of these also.

> Then the problem cropped up, my Partitioning Software only sees about
> 160 Gigs. 

What Partitioning Software are you using?  I experimented with something
new (for me) -- 'Gparted LiveCD':
  http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php

You boot off the CD and then partition from there.  It's kind of a
'Partition Magic', only it is FOSS.  Might be worth a look, as it had no
problem seeing my 320Gb drive.

Another issue I came across was that I needed to create a separate /boot
partition to make sure the boot-loader (GRUB) would work properly.  So I
made sure my first partition was about 100 Mb, bootable, and assigned to
/boot.

> The rest of the drive can't be accessed. Is there some Linux Overlay
> that allows the Whole Drive to be made use of?
> 
> TIA
> Alfred!

Good luck, and let us know how things go...

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