XP will not see over 137GB

[Guest]

I have XP home sp2, I install a 250gb Hard Drive ths os only sees 132gb and
the other 121gb is listed as unalicated. The only way I can get at it is to
set it up as a D: drive. How can I set this up so I have 1 C: drive that is
250gb??

 

[John Barnett MVP]

what would you want a hard drive partition that big for? XP only see hard
drive up to 137GB. To see the rest you need to partition the drive. A 20 GB
partition is big enough for most xp users never mind 250GB.

 

[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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| I have XP home sp2, I install a 250gb Hard Drive ths os only sees 132gb and
| the other 121gb is listed as unalicated. The only way I can get at it is to
| set it up as a D: drive. How can I set this up so I have 1 C: drive that is
| 250gb??

 

[Guest]

I have EnableBigLBA and it still will not see the hole 250

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Check the support web site of the manufacturer of your
computer or motherboard. Perhaps a BIOS update is available.
Some older motherboards simply do not support hard drives
larger than 137GB.

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[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, IE/OE]

Windows and hard drive manufacturers figure the size of had drives
differently Windows way is always smaller.
Windows uses 1024 x 1024 x 1024 for a GB, manufacturers use 1000 x 1000 x
1000.

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[Guest]

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You may want to test by booting with a floppy | fdisk | partition into 100
GB or less.
Everyone has a smaller partition C:\ for the OS and the other partitions for
the DATA

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[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

If you have already created a partition on the drive, then you'll have to delete it and recreate it using the maximum size, or use 3rd party tools such as BootIt NG (www.bootitng.com) or Partition Magic to resize the existing partition.

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[Ron Martell]

what would you want a hard drive partition that big for? XP only see hard
drive up to 137GB. To see the rest you need to partition the drive. A 20 GB
partition is big enough for most xp users never mind 250GB.

That is not correct.

XP with Service Pack 2 can see the full size of the new larger hard
drives.


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
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[Guest]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;313348

 

[Jack]

Not "Everyone" uses Multi- partitions on the hard drives ! That only SLOWS
Windows down and is not necessary with modern hard drives. Modern drives
work quite well with single partitions.
SO, unless you know what you are doing, just use a single partition and
save yourself the headaches.

 

[Ron Martell]

Not "Everyone" uses Multi- partitions on the hard drives ! That only SLOWS
Windows down and is not necessary with modern hard drives. Modern drives
work quite well with single partitions.
SO, unless you know what you are doing, just use a single partition and
save yourself the headaches.

There are many reasons for partitioning hard drives, almost as many as
there are reasons for using a computer.

And while a single huge partition may be acceptable for most
unsophisticated users it is not necessarily the best option, even for
these persons.


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
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In memory of a dear friend Alex Nichol MVP
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[Mike Hyndman]

There are many reasons for partitioning hard drives, almost as many as
there are reasons for using a computer.

And while a single huge partition may be acceptable for most
unsophisticated users it is not necessarily the best option, even for
these persons.


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada

OS on one partition, work on another, I know it doesn't do much good if
the whole drive turns its toes up, but it can be very handy if you want
to blow C drive away for any reason, leaving the reason you have a PC on
the other partition.
MH

 

[Star Fleet Admiral Q]

So you're saying I'm very unsophisticated with a Large Partition hmm? With
today's being so large and so cheap, why waste the time, and risk loosing
the partition table, as I've had happen a few times in years past. In case
you don't know, when the partition table is lost, all data regardless of the
partition is inaccessible by normal means. Besides, with 4 250GB SATA
drives in a RAID 10 (stripping & mirroring)configuration (in essence a 500
GB Partition) works just fine, along with the 250GB IDE drives used for
archiving and backups from other systems to include a CD-RW and DVD-RW, I
have all I need.

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[Husky]

So you're saying I'm very unsophisticated with a Large Partition hmm? With
today's being so large and so cheap, why waste the time, and risk loosing
the partition table, as I've had happen a few times in years past. In case
you don't know, when the partition table is lost, all data regardless of the
partition is inaccessible by normal means. Besides, with 4 250GB SATA
drives in a RAID 10 (stripping & mirroring)configuration (in essence a 500
GB Partition) works just fine, along with the 250GB IDE drives used for
archiving and backups from other systems to include a CD-RW and DVD-RW, I
have all I need.

Unless you have your own ISP, a raid setup for a home computer is where the
phrase more money than brains originated.

Raid on a home computer is overkill to the max. If you check out stats on raid,
when one goes down, in most cases they all go down.

Much better to fill up those extra slots with completely separate drives, and
make your own backups.

 

[Ron Martell]

"Star Fleet Admiral Q"

So you're saying I'm very unsophisticated with a Large Partition hmm? With
today's being so large and so cheap, why waste the time, and risk loosing
the partition table, as I've had happen a few times in years past. In case
you don't know, when the partition table is lost, all data regardless of the
partition is inaccessible by normal means. Besides, with 4 250GB SATA
drives in a RAID 10 (stripping & mirroring)configuration (in essence a 500
GB Partition) works just fine, along with the 250GB IDE drives used for
archiving and backups from other systems to include a CD-RW and DVD-RW, I
have all I need.

With multiple drives you are in no way using "a single huge
partition".


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
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Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

In memory of a dear friend Alex Nichol MVP
http://aumha.org/alex.htm