200Gb shows as 127Gb

[Spicker]

well my NEW WD 200gb hdd came in...

put it in installed xp...and then boom it says its only 127gb...and then im like the 48-bit LBA is probably disabled in the bios....then went it in bios and it says 200gb...(so its not the harddrive or the bios) its windows xp....

i installed sp2...still no luck...searched on google...tried a registry patch...still no luck....people say u have to install sp1 first then 2 for it to work but for that i have to reformat and reinstall windows... :wacko:

is there any other way???

[Ariel_001]

Did you go into computer management and create a new partition there?

[Smurfette]

well my NEW WD 200gb hdd came in...

put it in installed xp...and then boom it says its only 127gb...and then im like the 48-bit LBA is probably disabled in the bios....then went it in bios and it says 200gb...(so its not the harddrive or the bios) its windows xp....

i installed sp2...still no luck...searched on google...tried a registry patch...still no luck....people say u have to install sp1 first then 2 for it to work but for that i have to reformat and reinstall windows... :wacko:

is there any other way???
Partition it up into two 100GB lumps. Who needs a 200GB partition, anyway.

[Darth Sushi]

What file system are you using? (fat32, NTFS) FAT 32 Limitation (124.55 GB/127.53). Also, you'll need a BIOS version allowing you to enable 48-bit logical blocking rather than the usual 32 bit LBA which has that limitation. Check your bios version and visit your MB maker.

[cpt_azad]

make sure its NTFS (which it should be, i think everyone knows that).

[SingaBoiy]

How old is your motherboard?

[cpt_azad]

what does it have to do with mobo, IDE maybe?

[cpt_azad]

wait, scratch that last part, IDK what i was thinking

[Spicker]

NTFS

its NF7-S and it says the harddrive is 200gb in the bios...i guess ill just make 100gb partitions...

[cpt_azad]

ya go with the partitions, if the BIOS says it's 200gb then it's the OS fault.

[3RA1N1AC]

is there any other way???
you might try Partition Magic, see if it's able to recognize the unpartitioned space and increase the 127gb partition to 200gb. if it's able to, then you'd use the program to prepare the 127-to-200 job, reboot the computer and let Partition Magic do its thing (it might take a little while).

[Storm]

well the update for 48bit LBA is in SP1, so if you havent installed that, that should solve your problem.......

[orcutt989]

Yes my 160gb hdd, shows as 145..

[Darth Sushi]

Yes my 160gb hdd, shows as 145..
Most HD makers and windows calculate HD space by dividing by 1000 instead of 1024. Also, part of that size is allocated to the index, which is not free space. My 120GB HD shows up as 114GB.