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Jas
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i've bought a pc with an 80gb hdd

turn pc on and check the hdd capacity and its saying 39gb
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has it got the legacy drive jumper settings on it?
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also some very old PC bios's only support upto 40 gb
Nismo
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its not setup into partions or sumit?
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Might have a large data recovery partition or something crazy. Right click My computer and go to manage, expand storage, then click disk management and take a look.

 
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