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Getting all of my Hard Drive on XP

Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 11:29 am
by Grim...
I've got a 200GB hard drive on XP SP2 and it only recognises 130GB.
I've dug around on Google, but I haven't got any good answers yet (because, I suspect, I haven't asked the right question).

Anyone know of the top of their heads what I can do to get my missing 70gig?

Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 11:39 am
by feyd
I remember something about older boards not recognizing past 128GB without some help from various things.. like a jumper on the HD, or some setting in BIOS, I can't remember..

Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 11:54 am
by hawleyjr
Search for: "windows large hard drive support" I believe there is a cap at 130ish by default on a windows. What type of HDD did you get? Seagate has a decient (free) appliation to format drives and turn on large hdd support.

Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 1:19 pm
by josh
What filesystem is it in? What are you using to format the drive?

Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 1:23 pm
by Chris Corbyn
If you didn't personally format this I'd run fdisk to see what partitions it has. It's true that some older mobo's won't work with large drives too. The really old ones (pre 1992 ish) only supported up to 7.9GB I think :P

Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 2:13 pm
by Burrito
xp sp2 should have taken care of this. If you haven't installed sp2 there is a patch you can run on pre sp2 that will make large capacity drives work.

search MS' KB for 'large capacity hard drives'.

Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 2:16 pm
by AKA Panama Jack
Right click on the "My Computer" icon on the desktop and then select Manage. One the window open click on the Disk Management selection under Storage.

This will show all of your drives and their current partitioning. I don't know if this is availible in XP Home but it is availible in XP Pro.

Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 2:17 pm
by LiveFree
Yea it's in Home ;)

Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 3:49 am
by Grim...
Hmm - the problem could be that this drive has XP on it.
Bugger.

Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 4:20 am
by JayBird
Grim... wrote:Hmm - the problem could be that this drive has XP on it.
Bugger.
Why would that be a problem?

Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 5:27 am
by Chris Corbyn
Grim... wrote:Hmm - the problem could be that this drive has XP on it.
Bugger.
:? You mean some of the space is simply already used up?

By the way... what filesystem is this on? NTFS?