System does not recognized 200gb only 137gb with a Maxtor HD

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*I bought a Diamond Plus 9 200GB ATA/133 HDD
*My system is Windows XP Professional Service Pack2
*I installed big_drive_enabler from Maxtor site.
*The bios recognized the full capacity of the HD.
*If I go to hard drives administrator in the system, it shows a primary
partition of 127,99GB NTFS and a second unassigned with 61,93 GB.

Finally when I go over properties in the hard drive it only shows 133GB
and I want that shows the full capacity of the drive.

Any help?

Thanks.
 
Then it appears you formated the drive prior to enabling big Lba
ie 128gb + 62gb = 190gb which is approximately what a 200gb drive would
format to.

In order to install winxp with big lba enabled you need a slipstream install
of xp that contains the big Lba sp
You could parition / format the unassigned space, though there is apparently
a theoreticall possibility of data corruption if you do this after big lba
is enabled.
 
Thanks for your answer.

But what would you do in my place, reformat the hard drive?.

Is there any solution without need to do all the installation process
again?
 
As I said you would need a slipstreamed installation of Xp that has the sp's
Simply create/format a partition with the unused space, in disk management.
The corruption is only a theoretical possibility, many do it without a
problem
 
One more thing, I'm trying right now installing Windows XP but the
program from the beggining only shows the disk with 132 GB and the bios
is still showing 200GB of disk capacity. I should buy a new version of
Windows XP?

Thanks.
 
If I understand what you wrote, XP is seeing the full size of the drive. It
exists as two partitions. I expect that you could format the 62 GB partition
in Disk Manager and assign a drive letter to it.

If you require that the drive be set-up as a single large partition, you
have two choices. One is to partition it again and reformat it. (That would
eliminate everything on the drive, so you'd need a backup or imaging utility
to save the contents. I use True Image from Acronis. Newegg sells a
downloadable version for $30.) The other alternative is to use a partition
utility like Partition Magic. (I have also heard favorable things about the
utilities, like Boot It NG, from www.terabyteunlimited.com.) That would
enable you to resize the partition without losing the data. (That's in
principle. They recommend backing up first, as there is some risk that the
process won't go properly, and that the data would be lost.)

If you already have an XP SP2 CD, that's about as new as it gets, and
there's nothing to be gained with a newer version. If your XP CD is older
than SP2, and you have access to a CD burner, I suggest slipstreaming SP2
onto it. (Search on "autostreamer". I've not used it, but it is supposed to
be easier than the manual methods.)
 
I'm assuming the 132gb is seen when you create/format the partition, within
the installation procedure, that being the case you must be using a winxp
disk that doesnt include the sp that enables big Lba.
 
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