Windows XP can't recognize 200gb harddrive.

[Asnrefugee]

I just bought a seagte 200gb harddrive and XP sees that the harddrive is 190gb, but shows that its only 130gb of free space. Can I partition the drive so that windows will recognize it?

 

[Oyeve]

Do you have service pack 1 installed for xp?

 

[Asnrefugee]

Nope no SP1.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

you need it.

 

[Asnrefugee]

any other way than to get SP1?

 

[toleraen]

partition magic worked for me. or i imagine any other partitioning program.

 

[Oyeve]

download it if you have a fast connection. Or PM me your address and I can mail you a copy on cd. If you are using a hacked or blacklisted copy of XP then SP1 wont install.

 

[Asnrefugee]

Well I have an official key, but I gotta reinstall and really don't want to. Guess I'll have to.

 

[John]

Originally posted by: Asnrefugee
I just bought a seagte 200gb harddrive and XP sees that the harddrive is 190gb, but shows that its only 130gb of free space. Can I partition the drive so that windows will recognize it?

Yes, make a 10GB c: and install windows on it. After you apply SP1 you can use disk mgmt. to partition the d: to one big one.

 

[Oyeve]

Originally posted by: John

Originally posted by: Asnrefugee
I just bought a seagte 200gb harddrive and XP sees that the harddrive is 190gb, but shows that its only 130gb of free space. Can I partition the drive so that windows will recognize it?

Yes, make a 10GB c: and install windows on it. After you apply SP1 you can use disk mgmt. to partition the d: to one big one.

Wont Winxp see the extra space dynamically after SP1 is installed?

 

[MrChad]

Originally posted by: Asnrefugee
Well I have an official key, but I gotta reinstall and really don't want to. Guess I'll have to.

Why do you need to reinstall?

 

[zodder]

That's what I was thinking, too. Just install SP1 and you'll be fine. No need to reinstall the whole OS.

 

[vansouza]

Why would someone be logicly afraid of installing SP1. Don't we all need the updates?