fdisk, where can i downlaod it?

[Virtualbody1234]

although I can see it is in fact 200GB in my Device Manager.

Device Manager or Disk Management?. You must have partitoned it without SP1 and then installed the service pack(s).

Delete all partitions and start over.

[Samurai]

There are no partitions. I'll post pictures tomorrow as I'm off to bed. Night.

[uNz[i]]

There are no partitions...

<nitpick>
There is always at least one partition.
You can't install an OS or create a file system (FAT32 or NTFS) without partitioning the drive first.
Even if C: occupies the entire hard disk, it'll still use a partition.
</nitpick>

Edit: Have you tried looking in computer management?
Right click on My Computer and select Manage from the context menu.

The Computer Management console will open.
On the left, you'll see a section called Storage. Click on the subsection called Disk Management.

On the right, you will now be able to see how much of your disk is active (formatted) and how much is unallocated (blank).
You can format the unallocated space as a new partition by right clicking on it and choosing format. You'll also be asked if you want to use NTFS or FAT 32.
The new partition should now appear as another drive in My Computer.

Hope that helps.

[fkdup74]

I've tried everything to get my 200GB Western Digital HDD to come up as such but it's only showing up as 137GB.

I know that it's XP's fault, but I have SP1 and the registry key 'EnableBigLba' has been entered etc... anyone know a fix?

Data Lifeguard Tools does NOT work, by the way.

congrats on the hijack samurai :p
make sure windows is up to date on patches....
make sure you have the latest DataLifeGuard from WD....
it takes a little more to set up a 137+ GB HDD
but those two should help get ya goin
(you can also try going into windows disc management and partitioning,
say, two 100 GB drives, may work)
but i dont think windows disc manager will let you resize,
you may have to delete then reformat the current partition
or get acronis partition expert....
or use the WD data lifeguard tools

-edit- just saw the rest of your post
ok, so WD's shit didnt do it
try acronis or windows disc management

[fkdup74]

<nitpick>
There is always at least one partition.
You can't install an OS or create a file system (FAT32 or NTFS) without partitioning the drive first.
Even if C: occupies the entire hard disk, it'll still use a partition.
</nitpick>

<anti-nitpick>not if its a slave drive </anti-nitpick>

-edit-
hey samurai, if you want the acronis boot disk, lemme know,
we can work something out i'm sure
or get the ultimate boot disk like peat said, its trick

[Samurai]

Pics attached.

It's definately a 200GB HDD. Windows will not recognise it as anything other than 137GB, and is apparently a well known problem. Western Digital's FAQ did not help, and Data Lifeguard Tools v11 did nothing but add more space to my drive. It only includes information on installing the drive, and how to set it up etc... nothing about fixing the 137GB barrier.









FKDUP74 - Unless the Acronis boot disk will help me with this barrier, I don't know if it's going to do any good. I've tried nearly everything I can on bootdisk.com but no joy

[Entity101]

If it shows up as 200GB in Disk Management then it detects it ok.

As virtualbody said, remove all existing partitions and logical drives. Then use Disk Management to re-partition it.

Things are screwed up a bit now because you partitioned it with a 137GB limit.


There also exist a (linux) fdisk tool that handles large drives better. I think it is called gdisk.

[Samurai]

Thanks I'll check them out. If I re-partition it, would I lose all my data currently on my HDD?

[Virtualbody1234]

Yes you'll lose the data... So backup anything you want to keep.

Have you gone into Disk Management to see what shows up there?

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And about the first topic of this thread... Try: http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=...ad+fdisk&meta=

[fkdup74]

FKDUP74 - Unless the Acronis boot disk will help me with this barrier, I don't know if it's going to do any good. I've tried nearly everything I can on bootdisk.com but no joy

it might, because you can resize your current partition
(which i dont think windows lets you do)
and its a boot disk, so windows is out of the equation
i say its worth a shot, either acronis or the ultimate boot disk
otherwise you have to reformat and lose it all
(and no, resizing wont kill any data)