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10GB HD only shows 4GB after installing XP SP2 upgrade

 
 
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      20th Apr 2005
Hello. I just completed an upgrade to XP SP2. I'm using a Samsung
SpintPoint UATA 10GB hard drive as my C: drive and a Maxtor 40GB UATA hard
drive as my D:. This PC is a gaming machine I put together for my kids. I
wanted to the OS to go on the C: drive and the games, etc....to go on the D:
drive. Windows shows the capacity of the Maxtor (D drive correctly, but
I'm getting warnings that the C: drive is almost full, even though I should
have approx. 6GB remaining. How do I correct this? When I did the upgrade,
it didn't give me any options as far as hard drives are concerned, so I just
assumed that everything installed correctly.

My motherboard is a Chaintech CT-SK8T800, if that makes a difference.

Thanks for the help!
 
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      20th Apr 2005
Check the BIOS to see if the drive is correctly identified.

"Dhar2112" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hello. I just completed an upgrade to XP SP2. I'm using a Samsung
> SpintPoint UATA 10GB hard drive as my C: drive and a Maxtor 40GB UATA hard
> drive as my D:. This PC is a gaming machine I put together for my kids.
> I
> wanted to the OS to go on the C: drive and the games, etc....to go on the
> D:
> drive. Windows shows the capacity of the Maxtor (D drive correctly, but
> I'm getting warnings that the C: drive is almost full, even though I
> should
> have approx. 6GB remaining. How do I correct this? When I did the
> upgrade,
> it didn't give me any options as far as hard drives are concerned, so I
> just
> assumed that everything installed correctly.
>
> My motherboard is a Chaintech CT-SK8T800, if that makes a difference.
>
> Thanks for the help!



 
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      20th Apr 2005
If it only shows 4gb then that's all that is left. A 10gb system drive with
XP is not a good idea, much to small.

"Dhar2112" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:23863C6E-5046-4460-8F4A-(E-Mail Removed)...
Hello. I just completed an upgrade to XP SP2. I'm using a Samsung
SpintPoint UATA 10GB hard drive as my C: drive and a Maxtor 40GB UATA hard
drive as my D:. This PC is a gaming machine I put together for my kids. I
wanted to the OS to go on the C: drive and the games, etc....to go on the D:
drive. Windows shows the capacity of the Maxtor (D drive correctly, but
I'm getting warnings that the C: drive is almost full, even though I should
have approx. 6GB remaining. How do I correct this? When I did the upgrade,
it didn't give me any options as far as hard drives are concerned, so I just
assumed that everything installed correctly.

My motherboard is a Chaintech CT-SK8T800, if that makes a difference.

Thanks for the help!


 
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      21st Apr 2005
Hi,

I would suggest you to use the 40Gig to install XP and games and the 10 Gig
to store data files. a 10 Gig Hdd is too small for XP.

Peter


"DUH" wrote:

> If it only shows 4gb then that's all that is left. A 10gb system drive with
> XP is not a good idea, much to small.
>
> "Dhar2112" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:23863C6E-5046-4460-8F4A-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hello. I just completed an upgrade to XP SP2. I'm using a Samsung
> SpintPoint UATA 10GB hard drive as my C: drive and a Maxtor 40GB UATA hard
> drive as my D:. This PC is a gaming machine I put together for my kids. I
> wanted to the OS to go on the C: drive and the games, etc....to go on the D:
> drive. Windows shows the capacity of the Maxtor (D drive correctly, but
> I'm getting warnings that the C: drive is almost full, even though I should
> have approx. 6GB remaining. How do I correct this? When I did the upgrade,
> it didn't give me any options as far as hard drives are concerned, so I just
> assumed that everything installed correctly.
>
> My motherboard is a Chaintech CT-SK8T800, if that makes a difference.
>
> Thanks for the help!
>
>
>

 
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