XP can't see entire drive after new install AND service packs!

[gorgerax]

OK...Here's the deal:

I rebuilt my friends Gateway after his HD died with a new 250GB SATA drive using an original XP Pro install disk. I had to F6 to install the SATA drivers and the entire install went fine including subsequent installs of mobo, graphics and networking drivers as well as service packs 2 and 3. Of course then I reinstalled dozens of apps and returned it to him.

After he got it home, he noticed onbly @ 127 GB of the 250 GB hard drive showed up!

I have rebuilt many, many machines including ones with large HD and even SATA. I am familiar with the large HD issue with old OS's inculding the original XP...So I messed up on this one! LOL I have yet to determijne if this bios supports large HD so that may still be a limiting factor, HOWEVER...now that it's done, is there a way to make XP w/SP3 "see" the whole drive? I don't have the machine with me so so I may still be able to create a new partition and name it D drive or something.

Any input is greatly appreciated!

 

[Zoron]

You should be able to go into disk management and create another partition on the free space. If not, then I'd suggest using a slipstreamed SP2 or SP3 CD. Incidentally... why install SP2 and then SP3? Simply installing SP3 would have been sufficient and would have taken less time.

 

[Guest]

You can't install SP3 on a Windows installation of SP1 or earlier.

Grumpy

 

[Zoron]

Ahhh... well that would explain it then. Weird that you'd have to install SP2 before SP3. A slipstreamed CD all the way, then!