Support for 160 GB drives

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John Williams

How Can You successfully install windows xp and have my
harddrive show 160 GB?
I only show 127.99 GB and after you install service pack
you receive an additional 21.06 GB Unallocated that I can
do nothing with.
I have a samsung spinpoint sp1604 oem drive.
Help Me!
 
Copied from http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/faq/137_winxp.html

If your Windows XP CD does not indicate SP1, then your boot drive partition
will have a maximum size of 137GB. After the OS and SP1 are installed, any
additional gigabytes will show up as unallocated space on the drive and you
can easily create a second partition with DiscWizard 2003 or the Windows
disk management tools. Also, if you prefer to have a single partition, third
party applications such as Partition Commander from VCom or Partition Magic
from Powerquest may be able to stretch the partition to annex the newly
found capacity.



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