Just built compter and.........

[4fingerwu1]

Is there a service pack I need or something else?
I have windows xp installed
Thanks
Ric

 

[sjandrewbsme]

You need > SP1 for XP to recognize more than 137Mb.

 

[4fingerwu1]

Ok well it is recognizing it as 127gb after i dl'ed sp2
This hard drive was oem and I didnt receive a disk with it
Are there drivers that are needed ?

 

[Nocturnal]

No, you now need to go into disk management and then create the secondary partition with the rest of the hard drive.

 

[Jiggz]

Originally posted by: Nocturnal
No, you now need to go into disk management and then create the secondary partition with the rest of the hard drive.

:thumbsup: Now you have two partitions.

 

[Cheezeit]

Originally posted by: Jiggz

Originally posted by: Nocturnal
No, you now need to go into disk management and then create the secondary partition with the rest of the hard drive.

:thumbsup: Now you have two partitions.

Thats weird, I created two partisions on my 320gig hdd 40/280 and it recognized fine. Whats with the 123?

 

[Operandi]

With SP2 downloaded, make a Slipstreamed install disc of XP.

Reboot and reinstall.

 

[myocardia]

Originally posted by: Cheezeit
Thats weird, I created two partisions on my 320gig hdd 40/280 and it recognized fine. Whats with the 123?

You did that with either an SP1 or SP2 XP disk.

 

[Keleka]

Windows XP didn't recognize hard drives over 100 some GB and when you clean installed it thats as much of a drive as it formats. 120-130 something. Not until after SP 1 or 2 i can't remember did it recogize the large drives. So like the one guy said you have to either pay for 3rd party software and try to stretch the partition or make a seperate one like i have. I found this out also when building a new gaming rig lol..

 

[bamacre]

Originally posted by: Operandi
With SP2 downloaded, make a Slipstreamed install disc of XP.

Reboot and reinstall.

:thumbsup:

 

[herbiehancock]

Originally posted by: Keleka
Windows XP didn't recognize hard drives over 100 some GB and when you clean installed it thats as much of a drive as it formats. 120-130 something. Not until after SP 1 or 2 i can't remember did it recogize the large drives. So like the one guy said you have to either pay for 3rd party software and try to stretch the partition or make a seperate one like i have. I found this out also when building a new gaming rig lol..

Odd......I just used an original XP disc, no service pack-1 or 2-at all, just the original XP, to format a 320GB Seagate SATA drive last night. It recognized the whole drive and formatted it flawlessly to its complete formatted size of around 300GB. Weird.

 

[Newdude]

Windows XP CD?s manufactured prior to August 2002 have a native limitation of 137 GB. Windows XP CD?s manufactured prior to August 2002 will not create partitions greater than 137 GB until after the Service Pack 1 or higher is installed and registry bit EnableBigLBA is set to 1.

As of January 2003, new copies of Windows XP Full Versions have incorporated 48-bit Addressing for ATA interface hard drives.

Users can confirm that their copy has this support by inspecting the installation CD artwork. It should say "Windows XP Home (or Professional) Edition Including Service Pack 1" or higher.

 

[Oyeve]

Originally posted by: herbiehancock
Odd......I just used an original XP disc, no service pack-1 or 2-at all, just the original XP, to format a 320GB Seagate SATA drive last night. It recognized the whole drive and formatted it flawlessly to its complete formatted size of around 300GB. Weird.

Was the drive preformatted?