*FIXED* - Seagate 200GB SATA drive shows 65GB used, but ONLY XP Home/Updates installed?

[Trey22]

Have this drive in a Shuttle SN95G5, and have only 1 partition (might go back and fix that).

Installed XP Home, plus all updates, and when I checked the drive properties, it said 65GB used, 122GB free.

I did install the LBA registry change from Seagates site to enable sensing of larger than 137GB drives.

 

[Gothgar]

Originally posted by: Trey22
Have this drive in a Shuttle SN95G5, and have only 1 partition (might go back and fix that).

Installed XP Home, plus all updates, and when I checked the drive properties, it said 65GB used, 122GB free.

I did install the LBA registry change from Seagates site to enable sensing of larger than 137GB drives.

hahaha

spyware > you

 

[Trey22]

Originally posted by: Gothgar

Originally posted by: Trey22
Have this drive in a Shuttle SN95G5, and have only 1 partition (might go back and fix that).

Installed XP Home, plus all updates, and when I checked the drive properties, it said 65GB used, 122GB free.

I did install the LBA registry change from Seagates site to enable sensing of larger than 137GB drives.

hahaha

spyware > you

We'll see when I get home.

 

[Corsairpro]

installed XP home AFTER formatting the drive? Is it an OEM XP Home or is it a dell / hp / gateway / etc version?

 

[Trey22]

OEM version of XP Home that I installed after formatting.

 

[dullard]

Lets do the math. 137 GB (Base 10 gigabyte) is equivalent to 127.5 GiB (base 2 gigibyte). So Windows will report 137 GB as 127.5 GiB. Windows XP with updates should be a couple of GiB. Thus I'm not surprized if it reports 122 GiB.

Something must be wrong and you set up a 137 GB partition.

 

[Texun]

Originally posted by: Trey22
Have this drive in a Shuttle SN95G5, and have only 1 partition (might go back and fix that).
Installed XP Home, plus all updates, and when I checked the drive properties, it said 65GB used, 122GB free.
I did install the LBA registry change from Seagates site to enable sensing of larger than 137GB drives.

😉 You know Microsoft has jumped the shark when updates outweigh the OS. 😉



You have all the updates so I guess that would mean SP2 for XP. Sounds like a partitioning problem. What does the Disk Management window show? Control Panel>Admin Tools> Computer Management> Disk Management

 

[Trey22]

Originally posted by: dullard
Lets do the math. 137 GB (Base 10 gigabyte) is equivalent to 127.5 GiB (base 2 gigibyte). So Windows will report 137 GB as 127.5 GiB. Windows XP with updates should be a couple of GiB. Thus I'm not surprized if it reports 122 GiB.

Something must be wrong and you set up a 137 GB partition.

Until I updated/patched XP, it wouldn't see the entire drive. First time using a drive over 137GB 🙂 .

All is well now, thanks all.