hard drive size

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put in a new 250 gig drive.the bios id's it as 250 gig. formatted it as basic
drive , single partition, but windows explorer id's it as only 128 gig when I
click on properties.....?????? any ideas?
 
What service pack level is your Windows. Pre-SP1 won't work with large
drives. Did you partition and format the drive with Windows XP. Fdisk from
older versions of Windows also has this problem.
 
NS, if the format was FAT 32 in Windows XP the partition size would have
been 32 GB instead of 128 GB. This is probably a lack of SP 1 problem as
Kerry said.
 
I have the same problem. Had an 80gb drive that started to wobbly, so I got
a 250gb and reinstalled using the XP disk. Have installed all the updates
to XP and it still shows as 128gb. It was formatted NTFS. Any help would be
grealty appreciated.
Rob.
 
Did you partition and format the drive from an XP disk that did not include
SP1 or SP2? Does the BIOS recognise the full size of the drive?
 
Hi Kerry, thanks for your help.
Not sure. I just tried to get into bios and it has a password! I don't
remember setting it up. I can't get into bios now. After installing the
hard drive it did come on the screen at one stage saying it was a 250gb.
I'll keep trying to get into bios. Its a Fujitsu Siemens system and I
formatted it using the original oem recovery disk. I then updated with SP2
afterwards. Is it because its an oem version of XP?

Cheers,
Rob.
 
put in a new 250 gig drive.the bios id's it as 250 gig. formatted it as
basic
drive , single partition, but windows explorer id's it as only 128 gig
when I
click on properties.....?????? any ideas?
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You need two things to support a drive over 128GB:

1. A motherboard with a BIOS and controller that supports 48-bit LBA (or
alternatively, an add-in controller card that does).

2. At least SP1 of Windows XP.

You are clearly missing at least one of these.
 
Thanks guys. What I've done to get round it is formatted the unallocated
partition and given it a new drive letter. At least I can use the full drive
space now.

Cheers,
Rob.
 
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