160GB Drive

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I recently purchased a 160GB hard drive for a PC that I
am building. But Windows XP has a limit of 137GB for the
hard disk. How can I get the rest of my disk space?
 
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I recently purchased a 160GB hard drive for a PC that I
am building. But Windows XP has a limit of 137GB for the
hard disk. How can I get the rest of my disk space?
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xp needs SP1/SP1a to see the drive.
if, you put the drive in a box that has XP on it to begin
with, and format it using the management console, then it
will see it, or you could slipstream sp1 into the cd, or
you could simply create 2 partitions.
good luck with that.
Danielle

PS: i am sure if you want more detasils, someone here
will jump all over this in a few minutes (i will check
back later to see).
 
You will want to have XP SP1 which allows for larger drives than 160 GB.
What happens is LBA mode goes to 48bit in SP1 which allows for the
harddrive to be larger than 137GB. I would suggest making partitions
though. You could cut them in half and have 2 drives at 80 GB each. Use
the Windows 98 Bootdisk from www.bootdisk.com and then boot off it and
use fdisk in the command prompt.

Nathan McNulty
 
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