Do Not See partition

[bigstrickler]

Recently my computer kept restarting before it got to the desktop so I had to reformat and install windows xp again. However when I entered the INSTALL xp portion of setup, I did not see the previous partition or installation of windows xp. So I reinstalled, making a new partition. Now when I go into MYCOMPUTER, it says my hard drive is only 130gb big when I know its 160gb...whats going on here and why cant I see any of the previous installations or why am I not seeing my whole hard drive

 

[nweaver]

did you install with a pre SP2 disk?

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

Recovery Partition maybe?

 

[Smilin]

Originally posted by: nweaver
did you install with a pre SP2 disk?

What he said.

Use an XP disk slipstreamed with SP2. Retail windows does use 48bit lba (? I'm rusty) and can't detect drives above about 130gig