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digitalbooyah

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Hey guys, I just got a new system and it's working great, but I just had one question...

I got a 320gig hard drive, western digital, sata II, i'm really enjoying the speed, I installed windows on a 20 gig partition and was planning to just put the rest in one big partition for junk and everything...anyways...

I went into my disk manager to format the rest of it and i'm only getting 131,8xx total...and 110gigs or so after my first "system" partition. I've only got a base install so reinstalling windows wouldn't be a huge deal at this point, so my question is how do i get the rest? I'm sure i'm missing a jumper or something and i've never used SATAII before, SATA at all i suppose, so i'm just stumped, figured it'd be an easy question for you guys...

thanks!

the mobo is asus a8n-e , so it's nforce 4ultra something or other..

thanks again.
 
Another easy question!

I have 2gigs of ram in my new computer and when I boot up the BIOS says it's all there, but it says DDR 400, Single Channel, 64-bit

Don't I want it in dual channel? How would I change that? Ahh!

EDIT: it's corsair value 2x1gb sticks.
 
Sounds like you do not have any Service Paks installed.

Suggest that you stick in SP2 and then start tweaking.

Good hunting...
 
Just in case anyone is reading this having the same problem...

if you want your ram to run in dual-channel you have to put it in the right slots on the mobo. On my asus board i had to put them in every other slot. Bingo, fixed it right quick.

thanks for the replies.
 
Originally posted by: mwmorph
needs service pack 1 to reconigse the rest of the drive.
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OK, it needs SP1, but I have to install Windows first to download SP1, then how do I add the partition? Isn't this somewhat chicken and egg? Is the only way to do this with Partition Magic.

Edit: oh, and here's the Windows documentation on the issue... doesn't really explain what I need to do to fix this with an old copy of Windows XP though (pre SP1)
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013
 
You can order a CD of SP2 from Microsoft or download the full updater and slipstream it onto your Windows CD.
 
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