Xp not recognizing full 200GB of Hard Drive

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Larry Lowe

I have XP running on a 2.8GHZ computer with1 GB of ram and 3 hard drives - a
30GB, 80GB and 200GB. The 200GB is the most recent and is the main drive as
I and a system crash, had to re-install XP. XP has never recognized more
than 127GB of the drive.

The drive is now full. Is there a way to have all 200GB recognized without
re-formatting and starting over?!?

Help is appreciated!
 
I have XP running on a 2.8GHZ computer with1 GB of ram and 3 hard
drives - a 30GB, 80GB and 200GB. The 200GB is the most recent and is
the main drive as I and a system crash, had to re-install XP. XP has
never recognized more than 127GB of the drive.

The drive is now full. Is there a way to have all 200GB recognized
without re-formatting and starting over?!?

Help is appreciated!
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right click my computer, hit manage

and go to disk management

make sure there isn't an empty partition somewhere
 
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Larry Lowe said:
I have XP running on a 2.8GHZ computer with1 GB of ram and 3
hard
drives - a 30GB, 80GB and 200GB. The 200GB is the most recent
and is
the main drive as I and a system crash, had to re-install XP.
XP has
never recognized more than 127GB of the drive.

The drive is now full. Is there a way to have all 200GB
recognized
without re-formatting and starting over?!?
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You need two things to support a drive that large:

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 apparently don't have at least one of those.
 
Symantec's Partition Magic, will allow you to look at, and modify, the
drive's partition(s), cluster size, etc., without loosing files.

Bill Crockre
 
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You need two things to support a drive that large:

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 apparently don't have at least one of those.
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How did you ever become an MVP dishing out drool like that?
There are dozens of partitioning tools that will allow full use of the
drive. REGUARDLESS OF YOUR MOTHERBOARD.


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