Hard drive size...lost half of it!!

[Eddie G]

I have an IDE HDD and bought a 300gb SATA HDD that I wanted to make as my
boot drive. I installed the Sata drive first as my "d" drive and mirrored
it with XXClone. When I looked at the drive with Windows Explorer it looked
fine, so I unplugged the IDE drive and booted with the SATA drive. I
received a message "no os installed" so I re-installed Windows XP to the
SATA drive. During the install there was a 127gb partition that I had to
re-format per Windows installation. I figured it is a new drive and I can
always reinstall the software from my original IDE HDD. So I did this and
the disk booted fine (as a clean install on a new disk). Now when I go into
Windows Explorer it lists the SATA drive as only having a TOTAL of 127gb. I
re-formatted it within Windows and it is STILL 127gb. What happened to the
other 173mb and how can I get them back?

The SATA drive has no data on it now, except "system volume information" and
I really don't care what I have to do to fix this.

Thanks!

Eddie G

 

[JS]

I sounds like your PC does not support 48Bit LBA. Check vendor for a BIOS
update.
Also you need SP1 or SP2 for Windows XP

JS

 

[Eddie G]

I have the latest BIOS and my XP is SP1, NOT SP2.

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

See:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013&Product=winxp

And if you want to to a clean install. you'll need to slipstream your SP2
into your XP CD....
http://www.msfn.org/articles.php?action=show&showarticle=49

 

[Eddie G]

I did this and it is fixed:
Delete the partition that's on there with Windows Disk Management.
(Right-click My Computer, select Manage. Go to Disk Management, it will
show both of your hard drives, and show the 127GB partition on your 300GB
drive. Right-click the 127GB partition, and choose Delete.)

 

[JohnG]

Also, if you booted with both the original and cloned disk in the
computer, because both disks have the same ID (probably), XP gets
confused and my observation was that one of the disks (usually the
cloned one) ended up not bootable.