hard frive partially missing

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Scorpio

Hello,

I have a 200GB hard drive but for some reason I can only see 131 GB
available anywhere I look. I have searched several other related groups and
I have seen that some people have suggested making sure sp1 is installed and
that atapi.sys is ok etc. I have checked everything and still haven't been
able to find any kind of solution. I would want to avoid formatting my hard
drive and I am currently running out of places to look and possible
solutions you guys might have would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Scorpio
 
Then with SP1 or SP2 installed, go to disk management you can type
diskmgmt.msc in the run command. You should find that you have unallocated
space which you can make into an extended partition & set a drive letter.
If you want one drive of 200GB then you will either need to use a third
party utility like Partition Magic or slipstream XP with SP1 or SP2 and do a
clean install.

Hope that solves it
Neil
 
neil said:
Then with SP1 or SP2 installed, go to disk management you can type
diskmgmt.msc in the run command. You should find that you have
unallocated space which you can make into an extended partition & set
a drive letter. If you want one drive of 200GB then you will either
need to use a third party utility like Partition Magic or slipstream
XP with SP1 or SP2 and do a clean install.

Hope that solves it
Neil
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No, it won't. If the drive is one large partition, then *all* the space is
allocated and Disk Management cannot do anything with allocated space. By
definition, all space on the master drive is allocated, if one partition,
otherwise the system wouldn't boot. Sounds like a 48-bit LBA issue to me,
but if the BIOS identifies it correctly, then it must be a Windows issue -
he doesn't say what connection it is - maybe it's a SATA or RAID issue, I
don't know...
 
I was referring to the fact that the user is only seeing 131GB then I would
expect disk management to show unallocated space assuming either SP1 or SP2
is installed.

Neil
 
neil said:
I was referring to the fact that the user is only seeing 131GB then I
would expect disk management to show unallocated space assuming
either SP1 or SP2 is installed.
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You didn't read a word I wrote, did you? If it's *ONE* large partition,
there will be no unallocated space!
 
OK fair enough.
I guess neither of us have given the originator an answer to their problem
though.

Neil
 
neil said:
Then with SP1 or SP2 installed, go to disk management you can type
diskmgmt.msc in the run command. You should find that you have unallocated
space which you can make into an extended partition & set a drive letter.
If you want one drive of 200GB then you will either need to use a third
party utility like Partition Magic or slipstream XP with SP1 or SP2 and do a
clean install.

Hope that solves it
Neil
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Well, I do have SP1 installed and i had already created partitions while
installing Windows XP in the first place. when prompted i had only 131GB to
begin with and i created three partitons of 30GB each assuming that even
though Xp was showing that 40GB was left, that I could later on see where
the heck the remaining 69GB had gone. I have been to Disk Management and
there is nothing that is not allocated. i can only see my DVD drive and 4
partitions (the three i created 30GB each) and a fourth one with 40 Gb
instead of 110 that i expected....


Scorpio
 
Do you know if your motherboard supports 48bit LBA, I must admit I would
assume it does if the bios reports a full 200GB when the system boots.

Neil
 
Well, I do have SP1 installed and i had already created partitions while
installing Windows XP in the first place. when prompted i had only 131GB to
begin with and i created three partitons of 30GB each assuming that even
though Xp was showing that 40GB was left, that I could later on see where
the heck the remaining 69GB had gone. I have been to Disk Management and
there is nothing that is not allocated. i can only see my DVD drive and 4
partitions (the three i created 30GB each) and a fourth one with 40 Gb
instead of 110 that i expected....
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What does Disk Management say the size of the drive is?
Disk 0
Basic
###.## GB <--------
Online

If it's not about 186. GB, then Windows XP is not configured to
support large drives. You should reapply SP1.
 
neil said:
Do you know if your motherboard supports 48bit LBA, I must admit I would
assume it does if the bios reports a full 200GB when the system boots.
Click to expand...

It does....


Scorpio
 
Andy said:
What does Disk Management say the size of the drive is?
Disk 0
Basic
###.## GB <--------
Online

If it's not about 186. GB, then Windows XP is not configured to
support large drives. You should reapply SP1.
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128GB

It has actually dropped. It was 131Gb last time i checked...

I think that so far my best bet would be to do what ou suggest. Maybe SP1
was not installed correctly. I'll try it again.

Scorpio

Scorpio
 
Why not just install SP2.??

Neil
Scorpio said:
128GB

It has actually dropped. It was 131Gb last time i checked...

I think that so far my best bet would be to do what ou suggest. Maybe SP1
was not installed correctly. I'll try it again.

Scorpio

Scorpio
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neil said:
Why not just install SP2.??

Neil
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Well, I have heard all these problems others are having with SP 2 so i
fugured i could put it off for a while. If i dont have another choice I
guess it will simple come to that. Thanks for attempting to help.

Scorpio
 
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