Windows Xp Pro....

[KazaaBoy]

I have a Seagate 200GB HDD and Windows XP Pro only shows it as 127GB? When I go into the bios mode, it shows it as 200GB. I download SP1, as I was told it should of fixed it but it's the same thing.


Any help :frusty:

[Shiranai_Baka]

Isn't there something you need if you have a hard drive thats over 200GB? I'm not sure what, but I heard it from someone O.o

[Chewie]

Originally posted by KazaaBoy@6 July 2004 - 15:47
I have a Seagate 200GB HDD and Windows XP Pro only shows it as 127GB? When I go into the bios mode, it shows it as 200GB. I download SP1, as I was told it should of fixed it but it's the same thing.


Any help :frusty:
Where does it show you it's 127GB, the drive properties?

If so, right-click My Computer, select Manage, click Disk Management and see what it says in there.

[tesco]

In disk management it will show the remainder of the size of the drive as unpartitioned space. You could either:
1) Use partition magic to resize the 127gb partition to the full size
or
2) create a new partition which is the rest of the size using disk management. You will then have a 127gb partition and a (200-127)*gb partition.

*-To tired to do the math.

[KazaaBoy]

here, it's best if you see it for your self

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[tesco]

Originally posted by KazaaBoy@6 July 2004 - 14:33
here, it's best if you see it for your self

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[img]http://godsholyangels.com/HDD.JPG' width='200' height='120' border='0' alt='click for full size view'> (http://godsholyangels.com/HDD.JPG)
right click unallocated, and click partition,

Or install partition magic 8 or 7, and go into it, right click the 127gb partition, and click resize, then make it the full size.

[Spicker]

i wud use partition magic as rossco said ;) :01:

[KazaaBoy]

Originally posted by jaigandhi5@7 July 2004 - 01:04
i wud use partition magic as rossco said ;) :01:
I did ;) I put the space into one HDD and it worked. However, it says I have 187GB and not 200GB? Did I do something wrong?

[tesco]

Originally posted by KazaaBoy+6 July 2004 - 20:12--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (KazaaBoy @ 6 July 2004 - 20:12)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-jaigandhi5@7 July 2004 - 01:04
i wud use partition magic as rossco said&nbsp; ;)&nbsp; :01:
I did ;) I put the space into one HDD and it worked. However, it says I have 187GB and not 200GB? Did I do something wrong? [/b][/quote]
nahh that&#39;s normal. Hard drive manufacturers don&#39;t meausre size right. They say that 1gb is 1000mb but in fact it is 1024mb, and that 1000kb is a mb, but it is 1024, and so on. This adds up to be quite a bit of lost space :( then tehre is also the space u loose (not much though) from the file system.

My 40gb shown as 37gb :(

[Spicker]

lol someone shud teach em math :angry:

[KazaaBoy]

so the bigger the HDD the bigger space you loose.

Idiots <_<

Thanks guys for that. It helped.

BTW: I am looking for Norton Personal Firewall 2002 version but can&#39;t find it? The reason I am looking for these versions is because it&#39;s the best one I liked and worked perfect for me. Can you help me out?

[Ariel_001]

Originally posted by KazaaBoy+6 July 2004 - 21:12--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (KazaaBoy @ 6 July 2004 - 21:12)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-jaigandhi5@7 July 2004 - 01:04
i wud use partition magic as rossco said&nbsp; ;)&nbsp; :01:
I did ;) I put the space into one HDD and it worked. However, it says I have 187GB and not 200GB? Did I do something wrong? [/b][/quote]
try using smaller cluster size. mine is set to 512 bytes

[tesco]

Originally posted by jaigandhi5@6 July 2004 - 20:26
lol someone shud teach em math :angry:
lol, if they can make a hard drive, chances are they are pretty good at math. :lol:
It&#39;s non-cheapness they gotta be tought. ;)

[kaiweiler]

The size difference is usually because the manufacturers count a single gigabyte as 1000Mb, rather then the actual 1024Mb that it really is. This makes each hard drive slightly smaller then it should be.
Geez I thought you people knew these things :rolleyes:

[tesco]

Originally posted by kaiweiler@6 July 2004 - 21:12
The size difference is usually because the manufacturers count a single gigabyte as 1000Mb, rather then the actual 1024Mb that it really is. This makes each hard drive slightly smaller then it should be.
Geez I thought you people knew these things :rolleyes:
That&#39;s pretty much exactly what i said...mine was actually more detailed. :blink:

[Spicker]

Originally posted by kaiweiler@7 July 2004 - 03:12
The size difference is usually because the manufacturers count a single gigabyte as 1000Mb, rather then the actual 1024Mb that it really is. This makes each hard drive slightly smaller then it should be.
Geez I thought you people knew these things :rolleyes:
geez i thought u cud read the post above the last one.... :lol: :P
j/k


:lol: ;)

[kaiweiler]

Originally posted by jaigandhi5+6 July 2004 - 22:22--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (jaigandhi5 @ 6 July 2004 - 22:22)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-kaiweiler@7 July 2004 - 03:12
The size difference is usually because the manufacturers count a single gigabyte as 1000Mb, rather then the actual 1024Mb that it really is. This makes each hard drive slightly smaller then it should be.
Geez I thought you people knew these things&nbsp; :rolleyes:
geez i thought u cud read the post above the last one.... :lol: :P
j/k


:lol: ;) [/b][/quote]
:lol: :lol: Sorry, missed that one ;)
My mistake, I sure hope the death penalty has been disallowed...

[Chewie]

Originally posted by KazaaBoy@7 July 2004 - 01:27
BTW: I am looking for Norton Personal Firewall 2002 version but can&#39;t find it? The reason I am looking for these versions is because it&#39;s the best one I liked and worked perfect for me. Can you help me out?
The Norton 2002 products aren&#39;t comapatible with WinXP so go for 2003. I&#39;ve used them (NPF, NAV, NIS, NSW) and they&#39;re fine.

[Amarjit]

Originally posted by ROSSCO_2004@7 July 2004 - 01:16
nahh that&#39;s normal. Hard drive manufacturers don&#39;t meausre size right. They say that 1gb is 1000mb but in fact it is 1024mb, and that 1000kb is a mb, but it is 1024, and so on. This adds up to be quite a bit of lost space :( then tehre is also the space u loose (not much though) from the file system.

My 40gb shown as 37gb :(
Yes; this unfortunate mishappening is emphasized to a greater extent with RAID arrays. For instance, two 200GB HDDs being configured in a striped RAID-0 array, via NTFS formatting, consequences in an acceptable loss of 40GB, rendering you with 360GB of space.

[tesco]

Originally posted by Amarjit+7 July 2004 - 11:26--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Amarjit @ 7 July 2004 - 11:26)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-ROSSCO_2004@7 July 2004 - 01:16
nahh that&#39;s normal. Hard drive manufacturers don&#39;t meausre size right. They say that 1gb is 1000mb but in fact it is 1024mb, and that 1000kb is a mb, but it is 1024, and so on. This adds up to be quite a bit of lost space :( then tehre is also the space u loose (not much though) from the file system.

My 40gb shown as 37gb :(
Yes; this unfortunate mishappening is emphasized to a greater extent with RAID arrays. For instance, two 200GB HDDs being configured in a striped RAID-0 array, via NTFS formatting, consequences in an acceptable loss of 40GB, rendering you with 360GB of space. [/b][/quote]
imagine when 1tb drives are out, then how muc will u loose? (too tired to do the math).

[Chewie]

Originally posted by KazaaBoy@7 July 2004 - 01:27
so the bigger the HDD the bigger space you loose.
No, the capacty wasn&#39;t there in the first place; you can&#39;t lose what you never had.

[Chewie]

Originally posted by Ariel_001@7 July 2004 - 01:34
try using smaller cluster size. mine is set to 512 bytes
That may reduce slackness but won&#39;t raise capacity that isn&#39;t there.