Tech Support Forum - View Single Post - 250GB Hard drive, Windows only allows 131GB partitionable

shamus_099 · 10-17-2004, 01:04 AM

I recently upgrade my PC, and have installed a NEW 250 GB S-ATA Hard drive.
My bios has been upgraded, and when in the BIOS setup it recognizes the drive as what it should be, 250GB, When I was installing XP and creation a partition thru the intall progam it only let me setup a 131GB partition. I set up a 100GB partition and left the rest to play with afterwards. In the Computer management/disk manager in XP I have my 100GB partition and only 30GB of unallocated space to work with.

Does anyone know how I can resolve this problem?

Shamus

10-17-2004, 01:04 AM	#1 (permalink)
shamus_099 Registered User Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 5 OS: XP	250GB Hard drive, Windows only allows 131GB partitionable I recently upgrade my PC, and have installed a NEW 250 GB S-ATA Hard drive. My bios has been upgraded, and when in the BIOS setup it recognizes the drive as what it should be, 250GB, When I was installing XP and creation a partition thru the intall progam it only let me setup a 131GB partition. I set up a 100GB partition and left the rest to play with afterwards. In the Computer management/disk manager in XP I have my 100GB partition and only 30GB of unallocated space to work with. Does anyone know how I can resolve this problem? Shamus