Can't see full capacity of SATA II hard drive?

ShadoWing

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Now what? I bought a 250gb SATA seagate hard drive, and using the Windows 2000 SP 1 cd. I upgraded to SP4, and downloaded and installed the 48bit enabler thing for 127-137gb hard drives, but it still only see it as 130gb. What do i do?!??! Help please
 

Matthias99

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...do you see the full capacity in Disk Management? If you made a ~120GB partition without the 48-bit LBA fix, it won't magically become 250GB by itself.
 

TG2

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You need to install with a CD that has 2000 Sp4 in it already, in order to see the full drive size when installing.
Only thing you can do now is go into disk management and create another partition from the rest of the available space
 

Madwand1

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You could get a tool that will let you resize your partition. E.g. Acronis. There are probably some freeware for this as well.