Drew
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new hard drive - 200gb
bios says its actually 203gb
format it and install windows xp onto it - only showing up in windows as 127gb
why??? 
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PaulW
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is the bios accessing it correctly?
some hdd's are detected as CHS access mode, manually set it to LBA & try again.
You may also need to flash your BIOS with a newer version incase its that
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PaulW
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hold fire tho drew, found something out
what make harddrive is it you've got?
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Drew
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in bois - it says
LBA mode = on
motherboard etc is all brand new so surly dont need upgrading yet???
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Drew
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quote:
Originally posted by PaulW
hold fire tho drew, found something out
what make harddrive is it you've got?
shitty maxtor - well i think there pretty shitty anyway lol
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Drew
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i found this...
I am not sure how Maxtor came to the conclusion that you needed Windows XP sp1 or Windows 2000 sp3 to use all 200 GB,
maybe i have to update windows???
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PaulW
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no you dont
rite there are to options here to 'possibly' do a fix...
Option 1 (if your XP CD isn't an SP1a install disc)
Follow this guide to make a new XP CD which will include Service Pack 1a...
http://www.windows-help.net/WindowsXP/winxp-sp1-bootcd.html
Then boot from the new CD & just make sure that its listing 200gb & not 127 before deleting & creating a new one manually which uses all disc space (and format it in NTFS)
that 'might' work
Option 2...
Install SP1a once you've installed XP on the drive
Once SP1a is installed, goto My Computer, Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Computer Management
Go into the Disc Management box & it 'should' no be listing the remaining 70gb which wasn't there before SP1a was installed, just right-click it & create a new partition, or use Partition Manager to expand the original partition to the full disc size (risky)
Reason it only shows as 127gb is at the time XP was launched, the technology for larger drives than 127gb wasn't available, so microsoft didn't code it in till SP1a, so any version of windows not running service pack 1 won't be able to use drives larger than 127Gb
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Drew
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tried option 2
wouldnt work as i seem to have an invalid product key 
will try option 1 now 
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James_DT
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Try disk management without installing SP1/SP1a
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Drew
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quote:
Originally posted by PaulW
Go into the Disc Management box & it 'should' no be listing the remaining 70gb which wasn't there before SP1a was installed, just right-click it & create a new partition, or use Partition Manager to expand the original partition to the full disc size (risky)
ok got this done - i know nothing about partitions - if i set it as a new partition, will it have a different drive letter, like F or something?
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Drew
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all sorted - put it as a new partition - cheers paul 
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PaulW
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James_DT
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You can merge the 2 from within XP using the Disk Management, if you so wish.
Sometimes 2 partitions is handy though.
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PaulW
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you can't merge a primary boot volume & extra extended/primary partition 
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Drew
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i set the extra as primary - not extended
didnt know which to pick - was i right or dont it matter :S
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dave17
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i had this prob with my 180 gb hdd, jus used partitionmagic to split it into 140gb and 40gb drives, sorted it nice
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