not taking full size of 200 gb hdd

[Guest]

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hi,
I m facing a problem with winxp prof. I m using the SATA
Seagate drive which is 200GB capacity drive and also
detected through my motherboard exactly 200GB.But when I m
formatting/installing my drive through winxp it's showing
the total unpartitioned space 132 MB only.I m using NTFS
on same drive.Does XP support this much capacity drive or
not pls help me to resolve this problem I'll be very
thankful to u.

Arun

 

[Neil]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware (More info?)

There is a 137G limit to win XP. You need to enable 48bit addressing and
have SP1 installed, if you don't have a install version of XP with SP1 then
you cannot use all 200G for the C:\ drive but will need to partition the
drive.
Check this:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013

Neil
"arun rathi" <rathi007@dishnetdsl.net> wrote in message
news:985b01c4868c$1a0cb3c0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> hi,
> I m facing a problem with winxp prof. I m using the SATA
> Seagate drive which is 200GB capacity drive and also
> detected through my motherboard exactly 200GB.But when I m
> formatting/installing my drive through winxp it's showing
> the total unpartitioned space 132 MB only.I m using NTFS
> on same drive.Does XP support this much capacity drive or
> not pls help me to resolve this problem I'll be very
> thankful to u.
>
> Arun

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware (More info?)

A way to work around this is to slipstream the latest service pack into
your XP Install CD. This will not work for some OEM CD's, but most
others it will do just fine. Check out www.msfn.org/unattended for more
info 😉

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Nathan McNulty


neil wrote:
> There is a 137G limit to win XP. You need to enable 48bit addressing and
> have SP1 installed, if you don't have a install version of XP with SP1 then
> you cannot use all 200G for the C:\ drive but will need to partition the
> drive.
> Check this:
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013
>
> Neil
> "arun rathi" <rathi007@dishnetdsl.net> wrote in message
> news:985b01c4868c$1a0cb3c0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
>
>>hi,
>> I m facing a problem with winxp prof. I m using the SATA
>>Seagate drive which is 200GB capacity drive and also
>>detected through my motherboard exactly 200GB.But when I m
>>formatting/installing my drive through winxp it's showing
>>the total unpartitioned space 132 MB only.I m using NTFS
>>on same drive.Does XP support this much capacity drive or
>>not pls help me to resolve this problem I'll be very
>>thankful to u.
>>
>>Arun
>
>
>