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Join Date: Feb 2007
Posts: 2
OS: Windows Vista
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SATA Drive Size Issues
First off let me begin by saying hello to everyone. This is my first post on these forums.
I have been building computers for several years and I can typically resolve issues I encounter with a few searches; but I am stumped. I am building a computer for a friend (just using to surf the internet and email). Motherboard - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813128018 Hard drive - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822145132 After getting in the BIOS setup the hard drive shows up as its intended 250GB - but when I go to choose partitioning information in the WindowsXP Home setup, the drive is showing as a 131XXX MB drive. Is there a configuration option I am missing that is reducing the size to 131GB? I am thinking it could be a faulty drive. Thanks for any help. |
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Florida
Posts: 4,904
OS: xp
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With xp and no service packs, there is a size limitation. Once the machine
is up and running with the service packs up to date you should be able to utilize the whole drive. I think you can use disk management, or some thing like partition magic. I built one awhile back with the same situation and after I updated the sp's the drive was listed in my computer as the proper size, dont know how I did that, or if it did it itself.,still scratching head over that one. But the machine worked with no problems, maybe It was divine intervention, heheh, I dont know...
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