I installed on this system a fresh install of XP, did all the updates and got everything up to snuff. My HDD was shown at 137gb and I saw the unpartitioned 23gb. I can partition it and use it as another drive but that's not what I want. I want XP to recognize it as 160gb the first time I do a fresh install so that I only have one hard drive. How do I go about doing this? Getting SP1 installed is useless if it gets formatted during XP setup, so what's the point? I've tried doing a repair and that didn't work either

Basically, I want all 160gb on C drive. I have an Abit IC7-G mobo.

Hello

See links below (good source of info)


Why can I only see 127 to 137 GBytes of my 160 GB drive in Windows XP
http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/di...137_winxp.html

Alvin


Lord Odin wrote:

> I installed on this system a fresh install of XP, did all the updates and got everything up to snuff. My HDD was shown at 137gb and I saw the unpartitioned 23gb. I can partition it and use it as another drive but that's not what I want. I want XP to recognize it as 160gb the first time I do a fresh install so that I only have one hard drive. How do I go about doing this? Getting SP1 installed is useless if it gets formatted during XP setup, so what's the point? I've tried doing a repair and that didn't work either.
>
> Basically, I want all 160gb on C drive. I have an Abit IC7-G mobo.

If youve got the pre biglba version of XP you will have to slipstream SP1
and create a new xp inst. disk.
Try a google search 'slipstream winxp'

"Lord Odin" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I installed on this system a fresh install of XP, did all the updates and
got everything up to snuff. My HDD was shown at 137gb and I saw the
unpartitioned 23gb. I can partition it and use it as another drive but
that's not what I want. I want XP to recognize it as 160gb the first time I
do a fresh install so that I only have one hard drive. How do I go about
doing this? Getting SP1 installed is useless if it gets formatted during XP
setup, so what's the point? I've tried doing a repair and that didn't work
either.
>
> Basically, I want all 160gb on C drive. I have an Abit IC7-G mobo.

So you're saying the ONLY solution is to create a 2nd partition, right

----- Alvin Brown wrote: ----

Hell

See links below (good source of info


Why can I only see 127 to 137 GBytes of my 160 GB drive in Windows X
http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/di.../137_winxp.htm

Alvi


Lord Odin wrote

> I installed on this system a fresh install of XP, did all the updates and got everything up to snuff. My HDD was shown at 137gb and I saw the unpartitioned 23gb. I can partition it and use it as another drive but that's not what I want. I want XP to recognize it as 160gb the first time I do a fresh install so that I only have one hard drive. How do I go about doing this? Getting SP1 installed is useless if it gets formatted during XP setup, so what's the point? I've tried doing a repair and that didn't work either
>> Basically, I want all 160gb on C drive. I have an Abit IC7-G mobo

Here is a link to detailed step to "slipstream" SP1 and XP (original) into
one CD.

http://www.theeldergeek.com/slipstreamed_xpsp1_cd.htm

"Lord Odin" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:E1DA3354-92B9-4C19-A464-(E-Mail Removed)...
> I installed on this system a fresh install of XP, did all the updates and
got everything up to snuff. My HDD was shown at 137gb and I saw the
unpartitioned 23gb. I can partition it and use it as another drive but
that's not what I want. I want XP to recognize it as 160gb the first time I
do a fresh install so that I only have one hard drive. How do I go about
doing this? Getting SP1 installed is useless if it gets formatted during XP
setup, so what's the point? I've tried doing a repair and that didn't work
either.
>
> Basically, I want all 160gb on C drive. I have an Abit IC7-G mobo.