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[OhioState]

hello i have 2x seagate 160 gig hds both ide and on win xp pro and home they show as 127 gigs. Ive tried foolin in the bios and cant figure it out. ( sp2 installed on both)

my board is an ecs nforce3-a 1.0 and hers is a foxconn p4 board

in the bios it reads it as 160 but when windows loads it reads as 127

i know this is probably somthing stupid im doing

any help is appreciated

thanks much

 

[Mik3y]

partition magic is your friend. the reason why it cut off at 127gb is because there was no SP2 during the format. sp1 and down only supports up to 127gb. since you have sp2 installed now, use partition magic to conjoin hte 2 drives. this is what I have to do since my winxp disk doesnt have sp2.

 

[shoRunner]

sp1 supported large HDs. the problem probably is that u had an old version of xp that u installed and then updated to current service packs. if you went to contol panel --> administrative tools --> computer management ---> storage --> disk management that unused space probably shows up there. it will allow you to partition and format the rest of the drive but if you wanted to merge it with the current partition you'd need a program like partition magic.

 

[OhioState]

cant thank you 2 enough problem solved

used shorunners idea then used partition magic to fuse them sweet