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WOO! Just built my new computer! A few problems though.

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Shadmere

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I just finished building my new computer. It has a 250 gigabyte Seagate HDD in it.

I'm installing windows XP right now. It's formatting. But it's only recognizing 131062 megabytes of space.

Why is this so? Will this get better when XP installs? Or is something else wrong?

Thanks. =)
 
You need Service Pack 1 or 2 (not sure which one) for it to be fully recognized. I'd slipstream SP2 and have it all set from the get-go.
 
My current computer's CD burner doesnt work. Ah well.

So when I download SP 1 and 2, it'll recognize the full thing? As long as it's not broken, I'm happy. Haha. (My BIOS does recognize the full drive.)

Hey, Microsoft will let me install my copy of Windows on a new PC, right? Since I'm just trashing this one? (As soon as I make sure my new one works right.)
 
I always slipstream, but my understanding is that the install of SP2 will result in your drive being fully recognized.

You're not saying what version of XP you have. Full, OEM or whatever, so I can't say. And I will leave that answer to those more knowledgeable than I.
 
Windows already made the partition that reads 130 GB. By installing SP1 or SP2, you now enable the reading of drives larger than 130 GB but this doesn't change your current partition size. I would have installed XP in an OS partition like maybe 10GB depending on how big your Swap File is and partitioned the rest for anything else. For now get a third party partition program and partition the empty space available or combine the partitions which I would recommend against.
 
Originally posted by: bluestrobe
Windows already made the partition that reads 130 GB. By installing SP1 or SP2, you now enable the reading of drives larger than 130 GB but this doesn't change your current partition size. I would have installed XP in an OS partition like maybe 10GB depending on how big your Swap File is and partitioned the rest for anything else. For now get a third party partition program and partition the empty space available or combine the partitions which I would recommend against.
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Indeed, you're see an old, well-known 48-bit LBA limitation that's been posted about a million times in these forums. You should have told XP to partition the drive during setup, I recommend an OS partition (C) of around 60GB (10GB is far too small), then split the rest of the drive up however you like and use those for data. You should ALWAYS create a separate data partition so your data is isolated from the OS drive....there's a millions reasons why.

I know it sucks, but since you don't have Partition Magic, I would start over and reload XP. It really doesn't take that long and your problems will be over.

 
Windows xp has Disk Management

right click my computer > manage > disk management

right click the unallocated space and you will be fine... never hurts having a backup partition in the case you have to format...
 
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