I coulda sworn I bought a 250 gb hard drive...

[teamcanada]

Ok so here's my problem. I just finished building a new rig complete with a 250 gb SATA drive. When I go to install windows xp and get to the partition page, it says only 131070 mb are available. Why is this?

If it matters, I have an Asus A8N-e mobo and no floppy drive. Please help me out here guys, I want my other 120 gigs.

thanks in advance

 

[fairlycompetent]

What drive are you using?

 

[jadinolf]

I case you're interested, my 250G drive shows 232G in "my computer".

 

[mechBgon]

Slipstream Service Pack 2 into your WinXP installation files, make a new CD, and install Windows like that. nLite is one way to do this easily.

 

[Bug]

That's normal. Either apply SP2 which should fix it, or do a Google search for Windows XP 137 gb limit. There's a registry key which should let you see the other 120 gb. You're probably better off just installing the OS (rather than worrying about the missing space now), then applying SP2 or the registry key.

If you really need to have the entire 250 gb in one partition, just use Partition Magic afterwards to resize.

 

[teamcanada]

thanks alot, you guys rule.