Yves Leclerc said:
It will not "really" fix this problem. The OP will need to "slipstream"
SP1/SP2 into his original XP CD and create a new install CD. Look for
Autotreamer for help.
PreachDad (or Lasse?):
What Jon is indicating is that in order for the XP OS to recognize the full
capacity of your 400 GB HD, two requirements are necessary...
1. Your motherboard's BIOS supports large-capacity disks, i.e., disks > 137
GB, and;
2. SP1 and/or SP2 must be installed on your system *before or at the time*
your 400 GB drive is installed.
We'll assume requirement 1. is met.
I have the feeling that when you originally formatted your 400 GB drive, you
did not have SP1 or SP2 installed and that's why the system detected only
128 GB (roughly the binary for 137 GB). After you installed SP1 or SP2, the
remaining capacity of that drive was recognized, but designated "unallocated
space", disk space that you must partition/format before you can use it.
Assuming I have this right, what you can now do is access Disk Management
again (since you did so previously, I assume you know how to do this) and
partition and format that unallocated space. This will, of course, give you
at the minimum, two partitions. Again, I'm assuming SP1 or SP2 is presently
installed on your system.
If, for some reason, you desire only a single partition on your drive, you
can delete the present 128 GB partition and create a single partition and
format such. Of course by so doing you will lose whatever data is on that
disk. But I'm assuming from your posting that the drive is "virgin" and
there's no data on it.
There's another third-party solution to your problem as well, but we needn't
get into that I would think.
BTW, Yves mis:typed that slipstreaming program he referred to - it's
Autostreamer.
Anna
