Hard drive capacity is not recognized by XP

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I just installed a 160GB hard drive, but XP only sees
128GB. I installed it as a NTFS in the Disk Management
section. Any ideas how I can get the full capacity to
register?
 
-----Original Message-----
I just installed a 160GB hard drive, but XP only sees
128GB. I installed it as a NTFS in the Disk Management
section. Any ideas how I can get the full capacity to
register?
.
need to have service pack 1 installed.
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I just installed a 160GB hard drive, but XP only sees
128GB. I installed it as a NTFS in the Disk Management
section. Any ideas how I can get the full capacity to
register?
Click to expand...
Check out the following thread. There is some further information.

Subject: Support for 160 GB drives
From: "John Williams" <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 11:14:57 -0700

--
Howie
"The very belief that violence is unavoidable
is a root cause of violence."
Samdhong Rinpoche
1st Democratically Elected Chairman of the
Tibetan Cabinet-in-Exile
 
Repartition the drive and reformat or get Partition Magic
and expand the current partition.


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But government sees it as an obstacle to be overcome.


|
| >-----Original Message-----
| >
| >>-----Original Message-----
| >>I just installed a 160GB hard drive, but XP only sees
| >>128GB. I installed it as a NTFS in the Disk Management
| >>section. Any ideas how I can get the full capacity to
| >>register?
| >>.
| >>need to have service pack 1 installed.
| >.
| >I tried that... do I need to reformat the hard drive
| after the service pack or what? Still shows only 128.
| Thanks
 
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