XP not seeing hard disk full capacity

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I was checking on some old drives and was going to use one for backup. I put
two different drives (seperately) in my Compaq as second hard drives. In
both cases, Windows only sees half of the drive capacity. The last case, it
sees 30 GB of the 60GB in the drive. The BIOS sees all 60 and Linux (this
machine is a dual boot) sees all 60. It has NTFS file system, is jumpered as
a slave and has a system volume information files that is inaccessable as it
sits; there is nothing else on the drive.

Any suggestions?
 
As a follow-up, on further investigation, in properties, hardware and
volumes, the full size shows up in the arrangement: 26466 MB in a volume
with no letter, 1153MB in a volume with no letter, and 31003MB in volume F.
I don't know how to get the rest of the space back that isn't in F...........
 
I am having a simimlar problem.

I have a 200GB SATA drive. I slaved some older drives to my DVD-ROM and
backed up all my files (under XP HOME) and then put in my XP PRO disk to
format and install XP PRO on the SATA.

However, after formatting and deleting all the partitions, it only shows
that I have ~131GB of unpartitioned space now. Obviously BIOS knows its a
200GB drive, but there's about 70 missing. I'm not sure exactly what the
problem is... I have never had this problem before. Is there anything I can
do to get the rest of my drive back?
 
Don't hijack somebody else's message chain...


You need a newer XP, at least SP1 but preferably SP2...



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I am having a simimlar problem.

I have a 200GB SATA drive. I slaved some older drives to my DVD-ROM and
backed up all my files (under XP HOME) and then put in my XP PRO disk to
format and install XP PRO on the SATA.

However, after formatting and deleting all the partitions, it only shows
that I have ~131GB of unpartitioned space now. Obviously BIOS knows its a
200GB drive, but there's about 70 missing. I'm not sure exactly what the
problem is... I have never had this problem before. Is there anything I can
do to get the rest of my drive back?
Click to expand...

Do you have at least SP1 on?
 
Well, got it all back. Disk Manager did see the partitions, didn't identify
them, but would delete them so I could format the entire disk. Haven't got a
clue what they were....I know they weren't Linux; it'll just remain a mystery
 
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