If your hard drive is only showing 8 GB of available space and its a lot larger there is an easy fix. All you really have to do is find an update for your BIOS. Way back when 8 GB of data was the limit, and then larger drives came alone and thus it required an update to the BIOS.
Hard Drive Only Showing as 8GB
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