300 GB Seagate, Windows XP Home SP2, and 137 limit

[PCGamer3000]

I just put together a system and I am trying to get my hard drive to have Windows both see and use most of the 300GB with out setting up partitions with different drive letters in Windows Explorer.

I already have installed Windows using Seagate's DiscWizard and it only sees 125GB right now. I have an Asus A8V Deluxe motherboard and I know that the BIOS supports 48-bit LBA so I do not need a PCI controller.

I do not want to use Partition Magic to extend the 125 partition because there have been crashing and rebooting problems with this program.

Could I some how delete the 137 partition and reinstall Windows to get the most of the 300GB to be seen?

 

[Bug]

Have you tried checking this?
How to enable 48-bit Logical Block Addressing

 

[PCGamer3000]

That says that by default support is enabled for 48-bit in SP1. Service pack 2 was already on the Windows installation CD.

So do I just find a way to delete the windows partition and reinstall windows?

 

[Double Trouble]

There's many ways to do this, but the easiest is probably to just boot from the windows cd, and when it goes into the section on where to install windows, delete the existing partition and create a new one the spans the whole drive. You shouldn't have to use the seagate software either, unless you have an older mobo that doesn't support 48-bit LBA.

 

[PCGamer3000]

I reformatted and reinstalled using windows xp only and I am using NTFS file system so there is no FAT32 or DOS like I had on my old Dell 8250.

It seems to be working just fine and the three games that I have installed so far UT2004(DirectX), BF42(DirectX, JK: Jedi Academy(DirectX & OpenGL) high frame rates.

There is my new system in my signature.

Cannot wait to take a vacation with it.