XP only detected 137 Gb of 250 GB HD

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Hadi

Help!

I have just installed a new 250 Hitachi HD. I installed the Windows XP
and it only detected it as 137 GB. I made a 40 GB partition for the XP
installation. I downloaded the latest hotfixes and SP. I verified the
atapi.sys file and it now has the correct version 5.12600.1135. I added
'EnableBigLba 1" to the registry "Atapi\Parameters" subkey. The BIOS
setup menu showed/detected the 250 GB Hitachi HD.

When I tried to format the remaining partition, the XP only detected 97
GB (137-40) instead of 210 GB. How I get the XP to detect the remaining
210 GB correctly?

Regards,
Hadi
 
Why can I only see 127 to 137 GBytes of my 160 GB drive in Windows XP?
http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/faq/137_winxp.html

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| Help!
|
| I have just installed a new 250 Hitachi HD. I installed the Windows XP
| and it only detected it as 137 GB. I made a 40 GB partition for the XP
| installation. I downloaded the latest hotfixes and SP. I verified the
| atapi.sys file and it now has the correct version 5.12600.1135. I added
| 'EnableBigLba 1" to the registry "Atapi\Parameters" subkey. The BIOS
| setup menu showed/detected the 250 GB Hitachi HD.
|
| When I tried to format the remaining partition, the XP only detected 97
| GB (137-40) instead of 210 GB. How I get the XP to detect the remaining
| 210 GB correctly?
|
| Regards,
| Hadi
 
you'll need to apply the SP1 or SP2 patches to get this to work. the
funniest of things was Win98SE seen all of my 160GB but XP didnt.
I tried an installation of win98SE to use all the drive and then an upgrade
installation of XP.
it's a round about way but I got it all working. if you search around you
may find a free copy of the SP2 upgrade for it was free with some magazines.
HTH

R
 
Yes, the XP home edition has SP1 and I downloaded hotfix q33198(SP2),
and the XP still shows 40GB (Drive C/partition1) and 90GB instead of
200GB for the second unformatted partition (drive D).

Regards,
Hadi
 
Help!

I have just installed a new 250 Hitachi HD. I installed the Windows XP
and it only detected it as 137 GB. I made a 40 GB partition for the XP
installation. I downloaded the latest hotfixes and SP. I verified the
atapi.sys file and it now has the correct version 5.12600.1135. I added
'EnableBigLba 1" to the registry "Atapi\Parameters" subkey. The BIOS
setup menu showed/detected the 250 GB Hitachi HD.

When I tried to format the remaining partition, the XP only detected 97
GB (137-40) instead of 210 GB. How I get the XP to detect the remaining
210 GB correctly?
Click to expand...

Run Disk Management.
Delete the second partition (logical volume).
Delete the extended partition.
Create a new extended partition encompassing the rest of the disk.
Create a new logical volume in the extended partition.
Format the logical volume.
 
Thanks a lot!

The Disk management fixed the problem.
I got 250GB total.

Thank you again and to all who replied.

Hadi
 
Thanks a lot!

The Disk management fixed the problem.
I got 250GB total.

Thank you again and to all who replied.

Hadi
 
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