Loaded XP and hard drive only show 130G instead of 500G
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From: miloman33 on 3 Nov 2009 08:45
From: Bob I on 3 Nov 2009 09:06 How to enable 48-bit Logical Block Addressing support for ATAPI disk drives in Windows XP http://support.microsoft.com/kb/303013 miloman33 wrote: > My hard drive crashed and I had to purchase a new hard drive. I bought a > 500G drive, but after loading XP it only show 130G. How do I get XP to see > the full 500G?
From: John John - MVP on 3 Nov 2009 09:10 You need to install at least Service Pack 1 (SP1), you will then be able to use the Disk Management tool (diskmgmt.msc) to create a new partition out of the unallocated space. If you want to install Windows XP on one single large partition encompassing the whole disk you need to use an XP install CD that includes SP1 or better. John miloman33 wrote: > My hard drive crashed and I had to purchase a new hard drive. I bought a > 500G drive, but after loading XP it only show 130G. How do I get XP to see > the full 500G?
From: Mark Adams on 3 Nov 2009 09:29 "miloman33" wrote: > My hard drive crashed and I had to purchase a new hard drive. I bought a > 500G drive, but after loading XP it only show 130G. How do I get XP to see > the full 500G? The easiest way is to install all of the XP service packs, then use Disk Management to create a partition from the unallocated space and then format it NTFS. You'll have a second partition D: If you want all one partition, the easiest way would be to reformat the drive NTFS using the formatting tools supplied by the maker of the hard drive and install XP again without using the XP disk to delete the partition; just install it on the partition the drive tools created. When you install the Service Packs, XP will recognize the whole drive.
From: John John - MVP on 3 Nov 2009 09:50
Mark Adams wrote: > If you want all one partition, the easiest way would be to reformat the > drive NTFS using the formatting tools supplied by the maker of the hard drive > and install XP again without using the XP disk to delete the partition; just > install it on the partition the drive tools created. When you install the > Service Packs, XP will recognize the whole drive. Are you sure about this? I haven't tried this with XP but as I understand it unless the Windows XP installation CD includes SP1 or better the disk will still be lopped off at 137GB (digital) (or 127.99GB binary) and the remainder of the disk will be unallocated. John |