Hard Drive says its smaller then it is?

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Jason Tsang said:
Check your hard drive's jumper settings.
Most hard drives have a jumper configuration to limit the hard drive
capacity to 128 gig for compatibility reasons.


Also ensure that you have SP2 of Windows XP installed, as that is needed
for
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Jason:
I've dealt with a wide variety of different makes & models of PATA/IDE HDDs
over the years and I've never come across a model that contained a cylinder
limitation jumper configuration involving the 128 GB barrier. As I'm sure
you're aware, the 32 GB cylinder limitation jumper configuration has been
relatively common in the past involving older HDDs. Note the OP is dealing
with a 250 GB HDD. Have you ever actually seen a HDD of that size that
provided for a CLJC of 128 GB? If so, I'd be appreciative if you would
indicate the make/model of such.

I assume you've seen all the postings in this thread responding to the OP's
problem.
Anna
 
3) Prepare a new version of your XP installation CD with SP2
"slipstreamed" onto it. (I've never used the "autostreamer" application,
but it's supposed to be the easiest way to do this.) Back up all your
data. Boot from the revised XP CD. Delete the old 128 GB partition, and
create a new one that give you the full space of the drive. (You'll have
to re-install everything, so this could be a lot of work.)

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=autostreamer
 
Thank you for your help. So my MB is fine (as I thought it would be)  =)
I just need to make sure SP 1&2 are installed BEFORE I install my 250GB HDD?

This would be difficult because my installitation CD dosnet have either on
it. I have them on seperate discs. I also wanted to use my 250GB HDD as the
master drive and install the OS on it.











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Please note to you only have to "slipstrean" SP2 since SP2 includes
all updates that are / were included with SP1.
 
I've decided to use my 80GB HDD as the master one and the 250GB one as the
slave one, much easier this way.

I have installed and fully updated my 80GB HDD, I'm now trying to add my
250GB HDD. I've connected it as the slave but it wont show up in My Computer.
If I open the Device Manager and click on Disk Drives, its listed along with
my 80GB HDD so the computer has found it, I just cant seem to use it. Any
ideas?
 
Bob said:
3) Prepare a new version of your XP installation CD with SP2
"slipstreamed" onto it. (I've never used the "autostreamer" application,
but it's supposed to be the easiest way to do this.) Back up all your
data. Boot from the revised XP CD. Delete the old 128 GB partition, and
create a new one that give you the full space of the drive. (You'll have
to re-install everything, so this could be a lot of work.)

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=autostreamer
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I see a download for Autostreamer here. I used something like this a couple
years back, to make myself a Win2K SP4 installer CD, and the process was
pretty painless.

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4444.html

Paul
 
Mark said:
I've decided to use my 80GB HDD as the master one and the 250GB one as the
slave one, much easier this way.

I have installed and fully updated my 80GB HDD, I'm now trying to add my
250GB HDD. I've connected it as the slave but it wont show up in My
Computer.
If I open the Device Manager and click on Disk Drives, its listed along
with
my 80GB HDD so the computer has found it, I just cant seem to use it. Any
ideas?
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If there is no drive letter assigned to it, right-click it and choose to
"Change drive letter and paths". Give it an appropriate drive letter, and
you should be good to go...

You may need to format it as one large drive, or create partitions as you
see fit, depending upon how you want to make use of the drive. Just make
sure that anything you want off of it is transferred to your other drive
before you do any of this (except assigning a drive letter) otherwise you
will loose it.
 
It wont show up in 'My Computer' at all. To format it, shall I just connect
it as the master drive and boot up my pc using the XP install disc. Then
format it as if I was going to install a fresh copy of windows?
 
OK, you stated that is does show up in Device Manager, correct me if I
mis-understood you. This is where you will take care of any partitioning,
formatting, or where you can change (or add) the drive letter(s).
 
Sorry, I made a mistake. It's not Device Manager, it's Disk Manager that we
need.

Right-Click on your "My Computer" icon (desktop or start menu), and choose
"manage".
In the list of items on the left, choose "disk management".

From here is where you can partition, format, or change the drive letter(s).
Just make sure that you are changing or messing with the correct drive.

In the lower section on the right, you should see a list of all the physical
devices in your computer. Disk 0, Disk 1, CD-ROM 1, CD-ROM 2, etc. Most
likely your main (boot) drive is going to be Disk 0. Your slave drive
should be Disk 1, but don't quote me on that, make you own judgment by
checking the total drive size in the boxes label Disk 0, Disk 1, etc. You
should see be able to see the different partitions for each "disk", and the
associated drive letters. That larger "disk" you are trying to make use of
will most likely only show as partially formatted, and no drive letter
associated with it. The balance of the drive will most likely read as
"unallocated". This just means that is hasn't been set up as a separate
partition and formatted.
 
Not a problem at all! Glad it worked out for you, and sorry about the
initial mis-information. For some reason the brain was reading your post as
"disk manager" instead of "device manager" at first. Glad it was cleared up
successfully.
 
I had similar problem. Check that your bios recognizes it correctly (usually press F1 as pc boots up), if yes then set boot options to 'boot from cd drive' and insert windows xp (must have service pack one) in cd drive. Xp will install a few setup files and then show you the drives on your pc suitable for installing windows Xp. Your hard drive should come up correctly here. Select it and Windows will continue to install itself onto your hard drive. All the best to all.
 
Nobody has any idea what you are talking about since you probably use a web
service to reply to this. Thus, you're not replying to the original thread
and none of the thread is quoted.
 
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