not taking full size of 200 gb hdd

[arun rathi]

hi,
I m facing a problem with winxp prof. I m using the SATA
Seagate drive which is 200GB capacity drive and also
detected through my motherboard exactly 200GB.But when I m
formatting/installing my drive through winxp it's showing
the total unpartitioned space 132 MB only.I m using NTFS
on same drive.Does XP support this much capacity drive or
not pls help me to resolve this problem I'll be very
thankful to u.

Arun

 

[neil]

There is a 137G limit to win XP. You need to enable 48bit addressing and
have SP1 installed, if you don't have a install version of XP with SP1 then
you cannot use all 200G for the C:\ drive but will need to partition the
drive.
Check this:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013

Neil

 

[Nathan McNulty]

A way to work around this is to slipstream the latest service pack into
your XP Install CD. This will not work for some OEM CD's, but most
others it will do just fine. Check out www.msfn.org/unattended for more
info