Windows XP only see 130 GB from a 160 GB harddisc

  • Thread starter Thread starter Guest
  • Start date Start date
G

Guest

hello

I bought a new pc with an 160 gb hard disc. The bios recognised the 160 GB. I started the installation XP pro english and Windows only offer me 131 GB space.

After the installation the "disc management" only have 131 GB.

Could anybody help me to solve the problem ??

ciao sven
 
Does your computer have a system recovery partition? If so, that takes up some of the memory.
Also, other programs running in the background will use up some memory.
Does your computer use Integrated Graphics? If so, that would take up some of the memory if I am not mistaken.
 
sven said:
hello

I bought a new pc with an 160 gb hard disc. The bios recognised the 160 GB. I started the installation XP pro english and Windows only offer me 131 GB space.

After the installation the "disc management" only have 131 GB.

Could anybody help me to solve the problem ??
Click to expand...

See if this article helps:

How to enable 48-bit Logical Block Addressing support for ATAPI disk
drives in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=303013
--
Tom Porterfield
MS-MVP MCE
http://support.telop.org

Please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup only.
 
It's not memory, it's hard drive space. This has nothing to do with memory
or integrated (read: on-board) graphics. Although it probably has a recovery
partition, a ~30GB recovery partition is rather extreme.

For the OP:

- Is SP1 installed on this system, or do you know if the BIOS supports 48
bit LBA?

- Start/run diskmgmt.msc, what does this tool tell you about the space usage
of this drive?

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Windows
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone



Gmesgrl2000 said:
Does your computer have a system recovery partition? If so, that takes up some of the memory.
Also, other programs running in the background will use up some memory.
Does your computer use Integrated Graphics? If so, that would take up some
Click to expand...
of the memory if I am not mistaken.GB. I started the installation XP pro english and Windows only offer me 131
GB space.
 
And, since this is a new hard drive and he installed XP as opposed to
copying the old drive to the new drive, there's probably no recovery
partition on this hard drive.
 
sven killy said:
hello
I bought a new pc with an 160 gb hard disc. The bios recognised
the 160 GB. I started the installation XP pro english and Windows
only offer me 131 GB space.
After the installation the "disc management" only have 131 GB.
Could anybody help me to solve the problem ??
ciao sven
Click to expand...

I am in the same boat. Two 160 gig hard drives, one the original NFTS
that came with the computer and the other an external USB FAT32 I
bought for back-up purposes. Both drives show up as 149.5 GBs, not
the 160. Where are my missing gigs?

D.
 
In
D. said:
I am in the same boat. Two 160 gig hard drives, one the original NFTS
that came with the computer and the other an external USB FAT32 I
bought for back-up purposes. Both drives show up as 149.5 GBs, not
the 160. Where are my missing gigs?
Click to expand...


There are no missing gigs. All hard drive manufacturers define
1GB as 1,000,000,000 bytes, while the rest of the computer world,
including Windows, defines it as 2 to the 30th power
(1,073,741,824) bytes. So a 160 billion byte drive (which are
what you have) is actually about 149.5GB.

Some people point out that the official international standard
defines the "G" of GB as one billion, not 1,073,741,824. Correct
though they are, using the binary value of GB is so well
established in the computer world that I consider using the
decimal value of a billion to be deceptive marketing.
 
Thanks for the explanation.

---------------------------
In


There are no missing gigs. All hard drive manufacturers define
1GB as 1,000,000,000 bytes, while the rest of the computer world,
including Windows, defines it as 2 to the 30th power
(1,073,741,824) bytes. So a 160 billion byte drive (which are
what you have) is actually about 149.5GB.

Some people point out that the official international standard
defines the "G" of GB as one billion, not 1,073,741,824. Correct
though they are, using the binary value of GB is so well
established in the computer world that I consider using the
decimal value of a billion to be deceptive marketing.
Click to expand...



....D.
 
Microsoft KB-303013 describes the Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 1 (SP1)
48-bit Logical Block Addressing (LBA) support for ATA Packet Interface
(ATAPI) disk drives that can increase the capacity of your hard disk to more
than the current 137 gigabyte (GB) limit.

Note: Windows XP does not support 48-bit LBA support unless you are running
Windows XP SP1. If you want to use 48-bit LBA support, you must apply Windows
XP SP1 or later.

If you setup or installed XP from a standard XP or XP Pro disk it probably
did not have SP1 (or now SP2) on it. Therefore you get the 131gb active
partition. XP, without any service packs can only recognize 137gb, but
remember, is save some space, in this case, about 6gb; so you get the 131gb.

I have the same problem; don't know how to overcome it unless I create an
install CD that combines my XP Pro with SP2. There is a process for that -
but it's not for small children.....
 
Back
Top