320gb HD showing up as 131gb in Windows Setup

[CreepieDeCrapper]

I just finished building my new PC with a Seagate 7200.10 320gb drive (it's the only HD in the machine). The BIOS correctly reported it as a 320gb drive, but when I went to install windows, the XP setup partition utility is saying that it's 131062mb. Which is just over half of the actual HD space.

Anyone have any idea what's going on exactly? Will Windows report the correct drive space once it's installed, or do I need to change some configs in the BIOS, etc?

BTW, this is my first experience with a SATA 3.0gb/s drive. Many thanks in advance!

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

48-bit LBA strikes again.

Install SP2, and it will recognize the rest of the drive. From there, you can either create another partition with the remaining part of the drive, use an utility to annex the partition, or use "diskpart.exe" (it comes with windows, and it's command line) to annex the partition.

 

[starwars7]

Same thing happened to me, it's fine, just continue with the insall, and then once you actually boot into windows everything should be ok.

The only bummer is that you end up with two partitions, so if you just wanted 1, than that kinda sucks. Unless someone has a solution for that?

EDIT: Fullmetal, looks like you know how to fix the partition thing. I'm guessing you are refering to a third party utilit. Although, "diskpart.exe" do I just type that into "Run" to get it going? What do I do after that?

 

[CreepieDeCrapper]

Wow, thanks for that QUICK and helpful response (I'm still partioning as a matter of fact )

I'll use the diskpart.exe to annex the partition as you indicated. Any starting points I should checkout besides Google? And yea, I should have mentioned that this particular version of XP Pro I'm installing is actually pre-SP1. So I have some upgrading to do once it's up and running.

 

[sonoma1993]

yeah you need sp2 install. After you get sp2. If you have a dvd/cd burner, make yourself a new windows xp cd with sp2 slipstream into it. That way, if you ever have to reinstall windows xp, the cd with sp2 slipstream intp windows xp, will fully detect your 320gb hdd.

 

[CreepieDeCrapper]

Thanks for the reco, sonoma. Not sure what you mean by 'slipstream' but I'll do some Googling.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Screen #1
Screen #2
Screen #3

start -> run -> diskpart.exe
"list volume"
"select volume x" //where x is the partition you wish to annex to
"extend"

Done.

 

[starwars7]

Damn Fullmetal, that's awesome! Thanks!

And Sonoma, that sounds like a good idea, I'll try and google info on slipstreaming as well, since I'm in the same boat as Creepie

 

[CreepieDeCrapper]

Here's a link I found about slipstreaming:
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_sp2_slipstream.asp

Looks pretty easy enough. Also, thanks again Fullmetal for the immediate tutorial! It seems strange though that formatting the newly annexed portion of HD space isn't necessary.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Originally posted by: CreepieDeCrapper
Here's a link I found about slipstreaming:
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_sp2_slipstream.asp

Looks pretty easy enough. Also, thanks again Fullmetal for the immediate tutorial! It seems strange though that formatting the newly annexed portion of HD space isn't necessary.

If you have ever done a quick format, all it does is reset the File Allocation Table. It doesn't actually write over any other data (thus format recovery programs arre possible) If you are annexing to the current partition, it just adds that part to the existing FAT. So no formattign is necessary.

 

[starwars7]

Originally posted by: CreepieDeCrapper
Here's a link I found about slipstreaming:
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_sp2_slipstream.asp

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Interesting, so since my CD is Pre SP1, do I need to slipstream SP1 as well?

 

[CreepieDeCrapper]

Makes sense. That's also why I usually never perform a quick format. I like to know that all my data is truely being deleted and more or less 'forever lost.'

 

[sonoma1993]

a good program to use for slipstreaming is nlite. It'll let you slipstream sp2, along with windows updates. Also you can slipstream your hardware drivers into windows install. It'll also let you make the windows install, unattened. It'll let you put your cd key, set all the settings you want. I used nlite. I added my nvidia motherboard drivers and ati videocard drivers to the install.

nlite website

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Originally posted by: sonoma1993
a good program to use for slipstreaming is nlite. It'll let you slipstream sp2, along with windows updates. Also you can slipstream your hardware drivers into windows install. It'll also let you make the windows install, unattened. It'll let you put your cd key, set all the settings you want. I used nlite. I added my nvidia motherboard drivers and ati videocard drivers to the install.

nlite website

After you stlipstreamed, did you get some weird error every once in a while? Something aobut a drive being updated, but was already new or something?

 

[CreepieDeCrapper]

Rad! Thanks again for the support, sonoma.

 

[CreepieDeCrapper]

Not sure if you're still around, Fullmetal, but I tried the steps you provided in your screenshots without luck:

@cmd-> diskpart
select volume 1
extend

"DiskPart filed to extend the volume.
Please make sure the volume is valid for extending."

Any ideas?

I also ran 'list volume' to verify that volume 1 is my seagate drive.

EDIT: SP2 is installed, btw.

 

[CreepieDeCrapper]

Argh, looks like I can only extend a volume if it doesn't contain the pagefile. Since I only have 1 hard drive that means I can't extend unless I install a 2nd drive temporarily and do some fancy footwork. Hopefully I can borrow one or find one on the cheap to do this with. I really don't want to use my 320gb drive as 2 separate disks/partitions.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/325590
(see first set of bullet points)

 

[RebateMonger]

Microsoft doesn't offer any tools to expand a Boot or System Partition in XP. To fix the 48-bit-LBA issue, you either have to re-intall Windows XP with an SP1 or SP2 version or else use a 3rd-party disk management program to expand your System Partition. Either way, be sure to back up any important data before doing anything.

Microsoft Knowledge Base: Functionality restrictions of the Diskpart.exe utility to extend sytem and boot partitions in Windows Server 2003 and in Windows XP

 

[CreepieDeCrapper]

Thanks for the input and link. I will look into slipstreaming SP2 into my install or possibly a third-party disk utility. Any thoughts on PartitionMagic?

 

[CreepieDeCrapper]

On 2nd thought, I think I'm just going to use the unallocated space as my data store and 'My Documents' folder, etc. Quick question if you're still available RebateMonger, should I select primary partition or extended partition? (Logical partition is grayed-out.) Thanks again!

 

[Blain]

My 320GB 7200.10 clocks in at 298GB formatted at 64k cluster size.