Install of Window XP Ser. Pak 2 will not allow access to 200 GB dr

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About a month ago I installed Win XP Professional on my Dell Dimension 8100
system. I have owned this system for years and had was running Win 2000 and
it needed an upgrade. Several years ago I added a Seagate 200 GB drive
(ST3200822A) to record video. Where I used to work, a systems person
configured my system to access all 200 GB using “OnTrack Disk Manager†and it
worked fine. When I installed XP pro this drive now appears as drive D with
31.5 GB of unformatted space. During the XP install this disk was not
formatted, only drive C (system) drive was.

This non partitioned NTFS file system drive before the XP install had about
65 GB of data on in mostly backed-up video. I assumed that this drive would
appear not affected by the new install.

Is there anyway I can access this drive without affecting the data that was
on it? Or, do I have to format the 31.5 first to access the rest of the
capacity of the 200 GB drive? I have run “big drive enabler†and it tells me
48 bit LBA is inabled.

 

[smlunatick]

About a month ago I installed Win XP Professional on my Dell Dimension 8100
system. I have owned this system for years and had was running Win 2000 and
it needed an upgrade. Several years ago I added a Seagate 200 GB drive
(ST3200822A) to record video. Where I used to work, a systems person
configured my system to access all 200 GB using "OnTrack Disk Manager" and it
worked fine. When I installed XP pro this drive now appears as drive D with
31.5 GB of unformatted space. During the XP install this disk was not
formatted, only drive C (system) drive was.

This non partitioned NTFS file system drive before the XP install had about
65 GB of data on in mostly backed-up video. I assumed that this drive would
appear not affected by the new install.

Is there anyway I can access this drive without affecting the data that was
on it? Or, do I have to format the 31.5 first to access the rest of the
capacity of the 200 GB drive? I have run "big drive enabler" and it tells me
48 bit LBA is inabled.

It seems that the OnTrack Disk Manager "overlay" control module has
been removed. This "overlay" tricked Windows 2000 into using the 31.5
GB "definition" as 200GB. With XP, it is not needed nor recommended.
If you do not have important files on the 200GB hard drive, access
Disk Management, remove the 31.5GB partition and recreate the new
200GB NTFS partiton.