160gb hd shows up as 127gb in winXP

[Nab]

i just recently got a seagate 160gb hard drive. After I installed it its showing up as 127 gb instead of 160 gb. My immediate reaction was to look in BIOS. I have a P4S533 ASUS motherboard (2 years old now?). I went to main--->primary slave (seagate hd). and it says that its 160000(not exact) megabytes, so i'm thinking that my BIOS isn't the reason why its not showing up. Thanks for the help.

 

[bacillus]

you need sp1
read here

 

[Nab]

Originally posted by: bacillus
you need sp1
read here

how can i download/install SP1 without getting SP2? Microsoft's website says that it stopped servicing downloads for SP1 .

 

[MrChad]

What's wrong with SP2?

 

[yelo333]

Originally posted by: Nab

Originally posted by: bacillus
you need sp1
read here

how can i download/install SP1 without getting SP2? Microsoft's website says that it stopped servicing downloads for SP1 .

This should do the trick:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/updates/sp1/network.mspx

Good luck!

MrChad: Many people are having issues with sp2 and compatibility. also, it dumps another load of m$ proggies on your comp you most likely don't want, limits the # of simaltaneous unconnected connections, etc.

 

[MrChad]

Originally posted by: yelo333
MrChad: Many people are having issues with sp2 and compatibility. also, it dumps another load of m$ proggies on your comp you most likely don't want, limits the # of simaltaneous unconnected connections, etc.

I understand that some people are having issues, but I would at least try it before I went through the hassle of applying SP1 + all the post-SP1 updates. Worst case scenario, he has to uninstall SP2 and install SP1 instead.

 

[yelo333]

Originally posted by: MrChad

Originally posted by: yelo333
MrChad: Many people are having issues with sp2 and compatibility. also, it dumps another load of m$ proggies on your comp you most likely don't want, limits the # of simaltaneous unconnected connections, etc.

I understand that some people are having issues, but I would at least try it before I went through the hassle of applying SP1 + all the post-SP1 updates. Worst case scenario, he has to uninstall SP2 and install SP1 instead.

Well, since you ask, I share the exact same thoughts...just trying to think of a reason why somebody might want to not install sp2...plus, if this is an old install, and he doesn't want to chance it, sp1 has a much lower failure rate.

 

[alphonsus]

I have the same probs. I have a WD 160GB hard drive but it only shows 32GB in windows. I just installed service pack II and its not wokring. Does anyone know what it could be? Should I try installing SP1?

 

[xcript]

Originally posted by: alphonsus
I have the same probs. I have a WD 160GB hard drive but it only shows 32GB in windows. I just installed service pack II and its not wokring. Does anyone know what it could be? Should I try installing SP1?

Sometimes there's a jumper on the back of the drive for limiting capacity (for compatibility with older machines, I guess..). You might want to look into that.

 

[alphonsus]

My motherboard is an asus a7n8x-e deluxe with a bios from april of this year. The hard drive is brand new and there are no jumper settings besides for slave and master. However my western digital 120 GB is partitioned to 30GB and 80GB and windows detect them fine.
Al

 

[bsobel]

it dumps another load of m$ proggies on your comp you most likely don't want, limits the # of simaltaneous unconnected connections, etc.

What additional 'proggies' are dropped? And do you understand what the TCP change is your refering to (first off, it's a queue, not a limit) does?

Bill

 

[NesuD]

Originally posted by: alphonsus
I have the same probs. I have a WD 160GB hard drive but it only shows 32GB in windows. I just installed service pack II and its not wokring. Does anyone know what it could be? Should I try installing SP1?

sounds like it was formatted with the FAT32 file system. XP will only create a FAT32 partition up 32 gig

 

[alphonsus]

Originally posted by: NesuD

Originally posted by: alphonsus
I have the same probs. I have a WD 160GB hard drive but it only shows 32GB in windows. I just installed service pack II and its not wokring. Does anyone know what it could be? Should I try installing SP1?

sounds like it was formatted with the FAT32 file system. XP will only create a FAT32 partition up 32 gig

Nope its listed as NTFS.

 

[MrChad]

Originally posted by: alphonsus

Originally posted by: NesuD

Originally posted by: alphonsus
I have the same probs. I have a WD 160GB hard drive but it only shows 32GB in windows. I just installed service pack II and its not wokring. Does anyone know what it could be? Should I try installing SP1?

sounds like it was formatted with the FAT32 file system. XP will only create a FAT32 partition up 32 gig

Nope its listed as NTFS.

What make / model hard drive?

 

[Canterwood]

Originally posted by: alphonsus

Originally posted by: NesuD

Originally posted by: alphonsus
I have the same probs. I have a WD 160GB hard drive but it only shows 32GB in windows. I just installed service pack II and its not wokring. Does anyone know what it could be? Should I try installing SP1?

sounds like it was formatted with the FAT32 file system. XP will only create a FAT32 partition up 32 gig

Nope its listed as NTFS.

Does it show up as a 160gb drive in Disk Management with a 32gb partiton and the rest as unallocated space?
If it only shows up as a 32gb drive in Disk Management then it would seem there might be something wrong with the physical disk.
If you have unallocated space then it means somehow its been partitioned that way, in which case you could either format the unallocated space as another partition or backup your data wipe the partition and recreate a new partition using all the space.
You'd still need SP1 or Sp2 to see the whole 160gb drive though, or maybe use the EnableBigLba registry key.
(That works in Win2000 SP4, not sure about XP gold)

 

[alphonsus]

Sorry I though I subscribed to this thread but I guess I didnt.
The hard drive is a western digital 8MB cache 160GB.

 

[alphonsus]

Originally posted by: Canterwood
[Does it show up as a 160gb drive in Disk Management with a 32gb partiton and the rest as unallocated space?
If it only shows up as a 32gb drive in Disk Management then it would seem there might be something wrong with the physical disk.
If you have unallocated space then it means somehow its been partitioned that way, in which case you could either format the unallocated space as another partition or backup your data wipe the partition and recreate a new partition using all the space.
You'd still need SP1 or Sp2 to see the whole 160gb drive though, or maybe use the EnableBigLba registry key.
(That works in Win2000 SP4, not sure about XP gold)

It did show up as 160GB when I first installed it. But after that partition magic and windows would only detect it as 32GB. There is no unallocated space on that hard drive that is visible. I have SP2 in windows XP and it still isnt showing the hard drive fully.
Al

 

[Nothinman]

What additional 'proggies' are dropped? And do you understand what the TCP change is your refering to (first off, it's a queue, not a limit) does?

Technically it does install that security console thing which is new.