Serial ATA HD 200GB but WinXP "see" only 127MB

[Guest]

I have installed a WD 200GB SATA hard disk, the size is correctly detected by
the system BIOS (LBA is enabled and set to <auto>) but WinXP is only using
127MB.

In the HD Properties->Volume the HD capacity is set to just above 190GB and
Unallocated space to almost 60MB.
WinXP 'allocated' to the volume C only 131MB of the total 200GB available.
The HD is not partitioned and C is the only volume.

Please help!!!

 

[Guest]

Right click on 'My Computer' then 'Manage'.

On the left side click on 'disk management' This will tell you if there is
any 'unallocated space. Unfortunately the only way to include all 200G's in
one drive is to reformat, wiping the drive. You could make a second partition
to utilize this space.

LUCK2U

 

[D.Currie]

I have installed a WD 200GB SATA hard disk, the size is correctly detected
by
the system BIOS (LBA is enabled and set to <auto>) but WinXP is only using
127MB.

In the HD Properties->Volume the HD capacity is set to just above 190GB
and
Unallocated space to almost 60MB.

Are you seeing this in Disk Management or elsewhere?

WinXP 'allocated' to the volume C only 131MB of the total 200GB available.
The HD is not partitioned and C is the only volume.

Are you sure about this? If you haven't partitioned the drive, you can't
have a drive letter. Maybe you're looking at another drive in the system
that has been partitioned?

Otherwise, you've got all the space -- 131 GB in the C partition, and 60
that hasn't been allocated yet. So it you're seeing this in Disk Management,
Windows is seeing the correct amount of space. You can simply create another
partition in the unallocated space and format it, and it wii get another
drive letter.

If your intention was to have the whole drive as one drive letter, you
should have had that option when you installed (assuming this was a clean
install; you didn't say). But in order for XP to see the whole drive at
installation, you would have to have SP1, at least, on your install media.

 

[Tod]

If the hard drive is not partitioned, it should not have any volume or
allocated space ???
Sounds like the hard drive may have come with a partition already on it.

The original release of Windows XP had a hard drive limit of 137GB.
And needed service pack 1 to fix that limit.
Have you updated your Win XP ?

 

[John Thomas Smith]

I have installed a WD 200GB SATA hard disk, the size is correctly detected by
the system BIOS (LBA is enabled and set to <auto>) but WinXP is only using
127MB.

If this is a retail box drive, Western Digital includes a CD

I recently added a 250Gig drive to my system, and WinXpSp1a
would only use 238Gig until I ran the Western Digital software
(which notified me it was making a Registry change)


John Thomas Smith
http://www.direct2usales.com
http://www.pacifier.com/~jtsmith

 

[Jim]

I have installed a WD 200GB SATA hard disk, the size is correctly detected by
the system BIOS (LBA is enabled and set to <auto>) but WinXP is only using
127MB.

There is a registry setting that allows disks larger than 137 GB to be used
with XP. Didn't the SATA installation software set that? It did for my WD
250 GB IDE disk.
Jim

 

[Jon L. Miller]

You may want to get a tool delpart and see what size it reports, also
it'll show any partition that isn't recognized.

JLM