Drive size not correct.

tagbartok

tagbartok

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Hello
I fitted a new 200Gb Seagate (bought from OcUK) to my mates Pentium 4 system which is about 4 years old. It was recognised in the bios as a 200Gb and the label on it states the same. I let the Win XP disc do its stuff and when it came the part about the partitions etc it stated that the primary partition of the the drive was 131068Mb or 127Gb in size. I let it format and complete setup but Windows too detects it as a 127Gb drive. There were no other partitions listed on the drive to explain the readings. I know older systems sometimes can't recognize bigger drives (The new drive replaced a 40Gb unit) but I thought that was ages ago.
Any ideas why the drive is a less than two thirds what it should be?
Cheers,
Tag
 
Yes SP2 is installed but Windows setup detected the incorrect size at setup. Is the motherboard or bios at fault.
Thanks,
Tag
 
I've always wondered something about the pre-SP2 not showing sizes above about 130Gb.

Say you have a 200Gb drive and you make a 10Gb Partition for windows and a 190Gb Partition for the rest. You then install SP2 to "see" the whole drive. Then you FILL up the 190Gb partition.

What happens when you format the first partition and install windows WITHOUT SP2??

You obviously won't see the whole of your 200Gb drive and you won't even see the whole of you 190Gb partition - so what happens??

Do you just "lose" some files until you install SP2?? Or what??
 
you wouldn't lose any of the files, you just wouldn't be able to see them on the disk. They will still be there but you will only see the first 127gb worth of partitions on the disk, until you install SP2
 
Yeah I put lose in inverted commas because I would hope you wouldn't actually lose anything ;)
 
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