Hard Drive limitation

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Bill W

I just finished building a PC using the P4P800 VM board, with and Intel
Pentium 4 3.0 Ghz CPU and a Western Digital Serial ATA Hard Drive (200 GB).
I installed Windows XP Home and found that I could only see 127 GB of the
200 GB hard drive. I updated the bios to version 1012.002. I then
installed Windows XP update SP1a with no luck. I made sure the bios was set
for large block addressing. The hard drives serial cable is attached to the
SATA1 connection on the motherboard and the CD/DVD burner is connected with
an IDE cable to the boards secondary IDE connection. I went into Windows
Disk Management and saw that Disk C was 127.00 GB NTFS and that there was an
unallocated space of 58.32 GB. I tried everything that I know to get full
use of the hard drive but with no success. I appreciate any help in getting
the system to recognize the full hard drive.

Thank you,
Bill
 
When ive bought large drives like that, they come with installation disks
which install drivers for the system to see and use the full capacity of the
disk, minus the usual file system overhead. If you didnt get this disk, just
check out the drives website - they'll have it there.
 
Bill,

What happened when you tried to put XP SP1 in?
If you install that, you do not need the registry hack others have
mentioned.

Do not install any HDD manufacturers special utilities - this will only mess
things up down the track.

If once you have either XP SP1 installed (recommended) or the registry hack,
you can extend the C drive to fill the rest of the disc by use the command
DISKPART /EXTEND

Take a look in Help on how to run DiskPart.

BTW: It is generally a good idea to keep data separate from system, and this
implies that having all of a disc as C drive is not a good idea. IE as an
alteranative you could use Disk Manager (or DiskPart) to create a new
partition to make the extra space available to you.

- Tim
 
Tim,
You have my sincere thanks. That did the trick. I started to follow the KB
article 303013 and it got to be riduculous, replacing a .sys file, making
registry changes, creating inf and text files. Finally, placing the files
in the required Sysprep folder in the Sysprep image required setting up
Image Based Windows XP Deployment. I was ready to pull my hair out. There
had to be a simpler way and installing SP1 and using diskpart was it.
Again, I thank you. For those having a similar problem, just refer to MS KB
article 325590 for using Diskpart.

Regards,
Bill
 
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