160GB HDD

[Clayton]

My MB supports a 160GB HDD with an updated BIOS which I have done and in the
BIOS if reports it as a 164GB HDD but installing windows xp where I am in
the partition screen it says Unpartition space 131069MB shouldn't it be
164000MB?

 

[CS]

My MB supports a 160GB HDD with an updated BIOS which I have done and in the
BIOS if reports it as a 164GB HDD but installing windows xp where I am in
the partition screen it says Unpartition space 131069MB shouldn't it be
164000MB?

Do you have SP-1 installed? If not, XP will only recognize and use
137gb. Without SP-1, your report of 131069mb is just about right.
Install SP-1 and it will see the entire drive.

 

[Clayton]

ok, after installing Windows XP non SP-1 it reports the Capacity of the
drive as 127GB and after installing SP-1 it still reports the capacity as
127GB

 

[Ron Sommer]

Below is from an earlier post.
--
Ron Sommer

You will then
have to do the partitioning and formatting from XP SP1's setup or Disk
Management, so you could not setup old XP onto it (which would restrict
you to the first 128 GB of the drive) and add SP1 after.

 

[John R Weiss]

My MB supports a 160GB HDD with an updated BIOS which I have done and in the
BIOS if reports it as a 164GB HDD but installing windows xp where I am in
the partition screen it says Unpartition space 131069MB shouldn't it be
164000MB?

What are the actual HD specs? Most are advertised on the basis of x Million
Bytes, unformatted. What is the formatted capacity?

 

[Clayton]

Great, I have used Partition Magic to get the other 33GB's back

One more thing, I have put my old drive back in as slave and the BIOS shows
it as installed but it doesn't show up in my computer, would the NTFS have
anything to do with it? I really need to get some files off it

 

[Clayton]

Partition Magic shows the old drive as Type 44 whatever that means, I am
still able to put it back in the primary and boot into Windows XP ok.

 

[Clayton]

All sorted, Go Back was causing the problem, removed that and the drive
appeared in My Computer

 

[Andy]

In order for the XP installation program to see past the 137GB
boundary, the Windows XP CD must have SP1 incorporated in it, either
by slipstreaming the original release with SP1 or by using a recent
version that comes with SP1.