250GB Hard drive, Windows only allows 131GB partitionable

shamus_099 · 10-17-2004, 12:04 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

charliep1 · 10-17-2004, 03:10 AM

Since this was a fresh install you need to add SP2. XP came out with a 137G limitation which was addressed with SP1. SP2 has replaced SP1.

If you only want a single 250G partition there are a couple of ways to address it.

1) Install SP2 and then run Partition Magic to resize the primary partition to pick up the extra 150G.

or
2) Slipstream SP2 into your copy of XP and then start over from scratch with a fresh install.
Chas

shamus_099 · 10-17-2004, 06:52 AM

Thanks for the quick reply.. Was planning on updating to SP2 today so will give that a shot..

Shamus

10-17-2004, 12:04 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

10-17-2004, 03:10 AM	#2 (permalink)
charliep1 Registered User Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Louisville, KY Posts: 451 OS: XP Pro	Since this was a fresh install you need to add SP2. XP came out with a 137G limitation which was addressed with SP1. SP2 has replaced SP1. If you only want a single 250G partition there are a couple of ways to address it. 1) Install SP2 and then run Partition Magic to resize the primary partition to pick up the extra 150G. or 2) Slipstream SP2 into your copy of XP and then start over from scratch with a fresh install. Chas __________________ A few aches and pains but still on green side of grass

10-17-2004, 06:52 AM	#3 (permalink)
shamus_099 Registered User Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 5 OS: XP	Thanks for the quick reply.. Was planning on updating to SP2 today so will give that a shot.. Shamus