wd 200 gb problem

[Bruce Banner]

I have a brand new WD Caviar 200gb hard drive that i picked up at the Cogan
Computer fair this past weekend . I installed on my PC & went to the bios &
it read 200 gb . I put in my Windows Xp Cd & booted up to start installing
windows xp. when i was getting ready to format i noticed that my hardrive
was not even close to what i saw in the bios. It read only 131 gb ...so mad
as all hell i rebooted again went to the bios .....it read 200gb.....went
foward with the xp installation ..again 131 gb....so i finished installing
Windows & got all the updates (service pack 2). Opened up my computer icon
check the harddrive space & it reads 126 gb. Can anybody tell me why i'm
not getting a full reading of my hardisk? My Dads 200 gb reads 189gb....so
his is ok.

 

[Jerry]

Original XP cannot see drives larger than 131Gb. XP w/SP1 or SP2 is/was ok.

Slipstream your XP CD with the SP2 download and burn a new XP w/SP2 CD -
then install on the 200Gb drive - should see it just fine.

 

[Gene K]

Bruce,
Go right here and download Maxtor's "Big Drive Enabler" fix for XP:
http://www.maxtor.com/portal/site/m...91346068/?channelpath=/en_us/Support/Software
Downloads
This little fix just makes a few registry changes which will cause XP to
recognize hard disk size more than 137GB.
Gene K