Lower than expected Hard Drive space

[boyscoutucla]

Hello all!

I have a Seagate st3200826a 200 GB hard drive on a MS 7207 Motherboard for an Athlon 64 3700 processor. It was originally in a E-Machine computer I bought from a retail store. I reformatted the computer and installed Windows XP Professional.

While instaslling windows and setting the partitions, it showed less than the expected 200 GB Hard Drive space. After installing Windows, it still shows only 127.9 GB as opposed to the 200 GB it should be.

Does anyone know any possible causes or solutions to this problem? Thank you!

 

[Noema]

Do you have at least Service Pack 1 on Windows XP?

Have you updated your motherboard's BIOS?

 

[daveybrat]

You are using an old copy of XP Pro CD. You need to have at least a service pack 1 or 2 cd to recognize more than 127GB.

 

[boyscoutucla]

Hello, thank you for your response.

Yes, the E-Machine computer came with Windows XP Home.

So I took my old dell copy of Windows XP Pro and loaded it on. It was probably an old copy of Windows XP pro.

Is there anyway to fix this without reformatting my computer again?

Thanks.

Edit:
Actually, I just looked at my Dell Reinstallation CD. It says Windows XP Professional Including Service Pack 1a. Is this still the problem?

 

[btcomm1]

I thought that it had to be SP2 to regognize more then 127 GB. If you could install SP2 then you go to disk management you will probrably see the missing space as unpartitioned.

 

[boyscoutucla]

Hello!

Thank you all for the quick responses. I didn't know it was such a common Windows XP problem.

I used the Disk Management as suggested and saw the unpartitioned space. I made a new partition, formatted, and it is working great.

Thanks for the suggestion!