Can't see more than 127Gb on 200Gb disk

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Steven Lyall

I have installed a new Western Digital 200Gb disk as my second disk, but the
machine only sees 127Gb.

Is there a way of fixing this?

Thanks,

Steven
 
Do you have service pack 1 for Windows XP installed?
Does your hard drive controller support hard drives that are greater than
128 gigs?
 
I ran into this same problem. It seems that the original
XP installer (for the Pro edition, in my case) cannot see
more than 130GB on a hard drive. I took a boot disk from
Windows 98SE and FDISKed the drive to FAT32 using all
available space. I then formatted the drive using
FORMAT.com. FORMAT will reported to me that the drive
was, and I quote, "25,11.23" GB, but the drive was
formatted to the correct size (in this case, 160GB).

When I ran the XP installer after that, it still thought
the drive had only 130GB but reported the correct
partition size when I gave it a partition to use. After
that, everything seemed fine.

Rory
 

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