Large hard drive formatting in XP

[Joe]

I have a 160 GB hard drive. I am loading Windows XP
Pro on it and I know the 137 GB limitations on formatting
hard drives but I do believe XP Pro has a patch that
let's you format large hard drives. My question is....I
have already created an 80 gig partition and loaded XP
Pro on it. Now when I am in the OS I only see the 80 Gig
C: Partition. How can I format the remaining 80 Gig
partition so it will become my D: drive???

 

[Jon_Hildrum]

Make sure you install SP1 first. I'm assuming your motherboard bios supports
drives larger than 137GB.

In this case go to conrtrol panel -->administrative tools - disk management
and create another partition for the rest of the drive. Then format the new
partition.

 

[Joe]

If ithe motherboard doesn't support over 137, can I at
least format up to 137 Gig?

 

[Jerry]

Yup.

If ithe motherboard doesn't support over 137, can I at
least format up to 137 Gig?

 

[Rich Barry]

Joe, you could check with the Motherboard Manufacturers website to see if
they have a Bios update. And, you could also
get a Ultra DMA PCI Card that has it's own Bios and will see the full
160G. Did you check with the Drive Manufacturers
website for Installation Software?