Need help from a computer god
 

I installed my 200gig harddrive but it is only showing up as 127gig.
I have Windows XP home, with SP1 and SP2 installed, pretty much everything is uptodate since I am now using it as my master drive, with my OS on it.

I need steps on how to get my computer to read the 200gig's

thanks

your os takes up space..

theres the end of my knowledge

Re: Need help from a computer god
 

ed: beer:

Knowledge base article:

[url:bd200]http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013[/url:bd200]

Maxtor Drive shortcut:
[url:bd200]http://www.maxtor.com/portal/site/Maxtor/?epi_menuItemID=3c67e325e0a6b1f6294198b091346068&e pi_menuID=976d37cd478c5826433f226075b46068&epi_bas eMenuID=976d37cd478c5826433f226075b46068&channelpa th=/en_us/Support/Software%20Downloads/ATA%20Hard%20Drives&downloadID=11[/url:bd200]

Seagate Drive shortcut:
[url:bd200]http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/download/reg_48bit_lba.exe[/url:bd200]

If you have SP1, you should have no problems. It may be that your motherboard BIOS needs to be flashed.

might have to partition it, and i would no nothing about that

you usually lose some space for example my 40 gig hdd shows up at 38.2gig, but you shouldnt be losing that much space.

Yea my 80gb shows as a 74.5gb which isnt bad, but like you said, he shouldnt be losing 73gb of space. oOo:

when you installed winxp you may have put a partition on it.

aquire partition magic

good luck

you need to go get a card that you install on your motherboard. there is something about older pcs that makes them not recognize more then 127gb of space. but dammit, for the life of me i cannot remember what they are called. anyone know?

raid card?

annoy:

[img]http://images10.newegg.com/productimage/15-104-214-01.JPG[/img]

how much does that card thing cost?

It's just a problem that WinXP has. I think those links Bleuachdu posted covers it.