Posted March 2, 200519 yr i was just wondering if any one could help me. i just finished installing my windows and i only have half of my HD storage space. i had the HD in another computer before this. i formatted the HD so i could upgrade my new system. the HD i have is a western DIgital 200G and when i load my Win XP Pro it says i only have 127G with only 124 free. before this it was fine. the computer part i have are: MSI motherboard 1.5G ram Kingston AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Wetsern digital 200G HD Hewlett Packet 60G HD
March 2, 200519 yr What filesystem did you format the drive with? It sounds like you've hit a partition size ceiling, but I was pretty sure that both FAT32 and NTFS support those kinds of drive sizes. The other thing that might be causing it is if LBA mode is set improperly in the BIOS. -The Gavster Three students died that year at the academy; one was executed, one was killed in a training accident, and one died of natural causes, for a knife to back will naturally kill anyone. -RA Salvatore Like to IRC? Try http://irc.randomirc.com
March 2, 200519 yr FPCH Admin You need SP1 or SP2 to recognize the rest of the drive. XP without SP1 or 2 will not see all of a drive larger than 137Gigs. Another Forum - Unlike the Rest
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