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problem with my new hard drive

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gramberto

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I bought a 250 GB hard drive. my Bios recognizes it as a 250 GB hard drive. I have windows 2000 professional and windows xp upgrade pro. So I have to format with windows 2000. Windows 2000 sees it as a 131 gb hard drive.

so when XP is installed, the disk is only seen as a 131 GB disk. what do i do? My windows xp upgrade is not a bootable disk. if i do a

format c:

and reformat, do i then install windows 2000 and windows xp over it again? I will then be able to see all 250 GB?
 
this is a unique and interesting post.
I dont think this has ever been encountered here before - a HDD not recognizing full size, only 121 GB.
I wish you luck in finding an answer as this is a very technologically advanced question that only the highest level of AT members (10,000+ posts) can address.
 
according to a google groups post, pre-windows xp sp1, windows can only format 137 GB of space. i could not reformat it for some reason. when i popped in my CD and rebooted, it said it was 'locked'.

i am downloading SP2 now. per the post, I can use partition magic and just make another partition. as long as i have all my space, i don't care if its on 2 partitions.

I had to install windows 2000, since i only have the XP upgrade disk. windows 2000 did the NTFS format.

if anyone else encountered this let me know.
 
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