Why Don't I Get More Disc Space Out Of a Bigger Drive?

[Robertt8]

Hi!

I've got a 880EX-VS and I've recently updated my internal drive to a 6 gig(er), I think it only responds up to 4 gigs, but the 6 gig should work. For some reason, when I run the self format thingy it only gives me like 400 megs? Am I missing something here? Does it have something to do with the partitions?

Please help!!!

Thanks!

[72fender]

The VS units OS will only partition 4GB drives, I learned the hard way too.

[Robertt8]

yeah, I knew that it only gave 4 gigs, but it only seems to offer me like 400 to 500 MEGS as opposed to gigs. I know the stupid thing should hold a bunch more, it just doesn't seem to give any more as an option.

Any help here?

[72fender]

Isn't that each partition size?

[Robertt8]

hmmmm....that could be....is there any way to get to the other partitions?

[barewires]

as a newbie, but have owned a vs880, there is a way to change the partitions.
as i recall, you can choose between 500 and 1000 MB (the maximum size of the partition is 1000 MB, i think).
look under drive initialize.

anyway, it works this way with my vsr880, but i think that's more of a '1680' than a '880'...
my two eurocents ...

[Robertt8]

ya...I guess it does have something like that...now just out of curriosity, why would you want your drive to be 500 megs when it could be 1000? So let's assume I set it for a 500 partition...is there a way to get to the other section(s)?

[barewires]

there should be a drive-select menu somewhere.
to get 1000 MB partitions instead of 500's i'm afraid you'll have to initialize.
that's some kind of formatting proces.
that also means you'll lose your songs if you don't have back-ups ...