250GB system drive problem

[kjk]

Hi Folks,

I just did a clean install of WinXP Pro on a new computer which has
two 250GB HDDs. I understand why it partitioned the HDDs as only
131070 MB. After installing SP2, I was able to increase the partition
on the D: drive to the full size of the disk by using the Extend
command of the Diskpart utility. This won't work with a system drive,
however. How do I increase the C: drive partition to the full size of
the disk?

Any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks.

Ken

 

[Guest]

Hi,

Unfortunately WinXp won't let you resize the system drive whilst it is
running.

You will need to use either a third party partition utility which supports
this capability, or re-install windows using either a WinXp Sp2 CD or WinXp
CD in combination with the tools available from most HDD vendors web sites
which allow earlier versions of Windows to see the full capacity of the HDD.

Les

 

[nesredep egrob]

Hi Folks,

I just did a clean install of WinXP Pro on a new computer which has
two 250GB HDDs. I understand why it partitioned the HDDs as only
131070 MB. After installing SP2, I was able to increase the partition
on the D: drive to the full size of the disk by using the Extend
command of the Diskpart utility. This won't work with a system drive,
however. How do I increase the C: drive partition to the full size of
the disk?

Any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks.

Ken

Start/run/regedit
(if unsure export registry for safety)
select HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
navigate to system/services/atapi/parameters or
system/currentcontrolset/services/atapi/parameters
right click for new
Select Dword name it EnableBigLba (take note of case)
set value to 1
end regedit
reboot

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