any SW under Winxp that can fix hard drive geometry?

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I used an outdated fdisk utility to partition my 500GB drive and mess up
the drive geometry. When WinXP boots up, the drive shows up as a 128GB
drive. Anyway I can have it redetect and correct the problem? This is a
new drive and I have no need to recovery anything from the drive.
TIA
 
Did that but no go. It insists that I only have a 128GB drive.






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If the computer's BIOS can detect the drive as 500GB and you will be
using XP with at least SP1 integrated in it, then you need to delete
all partitions and re-create them.

Starting with Service Pack 1 (SP1), XP will be able to access/
configure/format hard drives greater that 132GB. Formatting the drive
useing NTFS is a must since MS has lamed "XP" creation of FAT32
partitions to 32GB only.
 
The last version of fdisk (available at ms website) was designed for
partitions up to 128GB in FAT32. Over that size partition, it cannot
properly provide the proper partition size information.

The original version of XP (no SP1 or SP2) cannot recognize a hard drive
beyond 128GB. That's the biggest you can do with it.
 
Thank you for everyone's help.
I found out the problem is caused by my add-on IDE adapter. After I
connect the hard drive to the IDE port on the motherboard (Gigabyte
DS3), delete the partition on the drive and reboot, I can access the
whole drive without issues.
 
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