I just build a new PC. It has be working great bar i only have 127GB of space where as i got a 320GB HD. I know that XP SP1 only can see 127GB but i have added SP2 to the rig now that i was hoping someone can tell me how to get it back. i dont want to go down to the PC shop to fix it.

 

This is what i build...

AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ CPU, 3.0GHz, Socket AM2

Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe Motherboard, Socket AM2, 2000MHz FSB

Western Digital Caviar SE16 Hard Disk Drive, 320GB, 7200rpm SATA-2

Corsair XMS2, TWIN2X2048-6400C4, 2x1GB, DDR2-800, PC2

Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer Sound card, 7.1

LG Electronics GSA-H62L DVD Writer

XFX PV-T84G-UDE3 Video Card, GeForce 8600 GTS, 256MB

MGE XG Dragon ATX Mid Tower Case, 500W PSU

Try this:

Open the start menu, click on 'Run...'. In the dialog that appears, type 'compmgmt.msc' without the quotation marks. Open the Disk Management panel (under Storage), and right click on your hard disks. In the right click menu, select 'Enable Large Disk Support' - This should fix it.

 

Failing that just do what I did to get this answer for you and go to http://www.google.com.au and enter '127gb hdd'.

 

Good luck!

If that ^^^ doesn't work, you can slipstream SP2 into the XP install, and that will make it work. Just google how to slipstream SP2 into XP. Then reinstall XP

cool thx for the info i find 170 GB more still down 22GB. that will do for now till i reformat in a year or 2.

you not likely to ever see the whole hard drive - if you bought a 320gb harddrive (ie it says it on the hard drive) then windows will only see part of it.

 

here is how stupid windows is.

1gb = 1024mb in usually terminology (due tot he hex compression) but windows thought they would make it simple and say 1000mb = 1gb.

 

So your hard drive will appear smaller.

Maybe partitions would be a quickfix then

things like seagate tools, or WD's version of it will re enable the rest of the drive. I use Partition magic though.