Disk manager for seagate 160 gb sata barracuda hard disk

it means your hard disk have 120 gb capacity, you can make partition according to your requirement.

Verify what Drives have been detected by your Operating System by using Windows: Control Panel -> Admistrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Disk Management -> Your Hard disk(s) will be displayed with all existing partitions and any assigned drive letters.
Your external (or internal) drive must be recognized as having formatted partitions that have a drive letter assigned to each required partition.
Hope it helps: let me know how you go!

You are probably using FAT32 for your partition on your drive: the limit for FAT32 is 32GB. Alternatively, you are using NTFS but your partition has been limited to that particular size.

You could you a Disk partition manager to change the format of your partition to NTFS or if you are already using this format extend the partion size to your requirements.

A safer alternative, if your current partition is set smaller than your drive size is to create additional primary or secondary partitions to fully utilize the available capacity: you could use (with great caution and only if you are experience) standard Windows Control Panel -> Systems and Security -> Admistrative Tools -> Computer management -> Disk management

If the laptop is also XP, the drive should be recognized without problems. Sometimes this may not happen if the disk is unusually partitioned (could happen if you manually dual-booted it with Linux, for example). Verify the enclosure is working properly and has enough power supplied to, and that it appears in Device Manager. If all this applies, the enclosure must be considered working and the problem might be in the partitioning or disk access.

In XP Pro, do Start > Run Command > DISKMGMT.MSC and press OK. See whether the disk appears (if it doesn't, it's the enclosure, or its drivers - or the disk was dying and is now dead, but that's not very likely), select the NTFS or FAT32 partition - ignore any others - right click and mount the unit as drive, say, G.

If it doesn't work but the partition is found, you may need a more powerful tool such as Paragon Partition Manager.

See also here:
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B307889&x=12&y=12

Good day sir/maam, hi, 14 months is too short for a hard disk operating span, what we do is run the diskmanager software that comes with the seagate hard disk, on the diskmanager menu, run the low level format which usually removes the bad sectored space out of the way, and mark it as not usable. then may I suggest you partition your hard drive to 2, one for windows and the the other for data. call your computer dealer if they have in house techs for service, or get the copy of disk manager for your seagate. Hope this helps, thanks

Use some partition manager to format and crate partition on your disk, use this one it´s free and very good.

http://www.easeus-software.com/download/epm.zip


Hope this help

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have you partitioned and formated it ? unless you do that to the drive it will not show up with a drive letter in windows. go into control panel, administrive tools, computer management, disk management - there you should see all your drives and you can partiton, format, assign or reassign drive letters to them. hope this solves your problem.

The problem is that u have done partitions for 160 GB harddisk, so do all the partitions of 40 GB or less than that.