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Title: Hard drive question
Post by: tapakeg on June 10, 2006, 06:38:44 PM

Ok I bought a new hard drive,

This one to be exact.  My hard drive (http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16822144701)


I have XP home edition (legal copy) and when I went to install it, it only saw 135 gig of the 250gig available.  I have tried the install twice and both times it only saw 135gig.  I have tried several partition products.  One of them acutally saw the mission space, but could do nothing about it.



I am guessing I need to update my mobo bios and try again.  I was going to check with you guys first.  I am not sure the bios is the culprit however, because when I start the computer, it sees it as a 250gig, and when I enter the bios setup it sees it as a 250gig.

Any suggestions?

Tapakeg

Title: Hard drive question
Post by: ALF on June 10, 2006, 07:04:35 PM

XP should have no problems seeing the entire drive.

Your size query looks very much like a bios/chipset limitation (Ive seen older VIA chipsets do this).   Are you formating in Fat32 or NTFS?

Title: Hard drive question
Post by: tapakeg on June 10, 2006, 07:09:42 PM

NTFS


This is my Mobo


MOBO (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813128307)

Title: Hard drive question
Post by: Krusty on June 10, 2006, 07:30:29 PM

I have XP Pro and had a similar problem. I ended up letting Win XP format it during install (it was a clean install)

Title: Hard drive question
Post by: tapakeg on June 10, 2006, 09:31:36 PM

I did let it format both times  : (

Title: Hard drive question
Post by: eagl on June 10, 2006, 09:34:27 PM

You could try putting it into a computer that already has windows installed, and repartitioning it from there.  Remove any existing partitions and create one new one, then try installing on it.

Title: Hard drive question
Post by: tapakeg on June 10, 2006, 11:01:58 PM

Ok,
I do have this hard drive I am on, an IDE HD.

I could keep it as master then plug in the new one and using explorer partition it?  would I have to format it first?  I do already have 2 partitions on it, could I remove them first?  would it work with one being ide the other being sata?

thanks

Title: Hard drive question
Post by: eagl on June 10, 2006, 11:12:04 PM

If you keep your existing HD as your windows boot drive, you should be able to just plug in the other drive and use it.  Use the windows storage management utility to view the drive and partitions.  I suggest wiping all the partitions on it, creating one big partition, and then formatting it.

If you like, after that you could try to make it your boot drive by installing windows on it but that's up to you.

Title: XP SP0 = HD MAX size 130GB
Post by: Stone on June 11, 2006, 02:18:04 AM

Its not hardware problem. It is just that normal XP does not support 250GB disks.

You need XP with service pack 1 or service pack 2 to use the whole disk.

I suggest you install the windows on ~50GB partition. Then update to service pack 2, and make a 200GB patition for your data.