Disk utility only showing 31gb of 80gb after format
I just swapped a western digital 80gb hard drive from a windows computer into a powermac G3 and i fired up disk utility to format it for a mac, everything formatted fine but it is only showing 31.5gb out of the entire 80. Any idea what to do here? I know i am posting in the g5 forum but i figured i would get a quicker response here and a quick response is what i need. Thanks in advance
Instead of using the Erase tab in Disk Utility, go to the Partition tab. Select +1 Partition+ for +Volume Scheme+. If there is one on the screen, click on the Options button and make sure +Apple Partition Map+ is selected as the +partition scheme+. Apply those changes and see if you get the rest of the space to be recognized.
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