Partition problems after reinstall

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I have recently bought a pc with xp pro which turned out as not genuine. I
have an genuine xp home disk which I used to clean install the os. I chose to
delete the original partition which held the xp pro and then install xp home
(or so I thought!) .

The home install went fine, works perfectly however my 250gb hard disk has
become a 127gb hdd. Where has the other half gone. I cant see it when I boot
from the xp home disk or through disk management in xp.

Have i messed this up completely or is there a way to get the full disk size
back?

Some help on this would be great!

Thanks

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Why can I only see 127 to 137 GBytes of my 160+ GB drive in Windows XP?
http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/faq/137_winxp.html

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/

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|I have recently bought a pc with xp pro which turned out as not genuine. I
| have an genuine xp home disk which I used to clean install the os. I chose to
| delete the original partition which held the xp pro and then install xp home
| (or so I thought!) .
|
| The home install went fine, works perfectly however my 250gb hard disk has
| become a 127gb hdd. Where has the other half gone. I cant see it when I boot
| from the xp home disk or through disk management in xp.
|
| Have i messed this up completely or is there a way to get the full disk size
| back?
|
| Some help on this would be great!
|
| Thanks
|
|