HELP! Samsung Spinpoint 500GB

JonnySUFC

JonnySUFC

JonnySUFC

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Ive just bought an Samsung SpinPoint HD501LJ 500GB SATAII Hard Drive 16MB Cache - OEM from overclockers.co.uk, thank you for great deleivery came next day at 12:10 but theres a problem ive installed the hard drive etc and in my BIOS its reconised the hard drive as Samsung HD501LJ i go onto the hard disk it says Capicaty 500GB etc all fine, ive installed my OS (XP) and when i go to Start > My Computer > Right click (C) and then Prop, it only shows 134GB anyone have any ideas, as far as im concerned everything is connection correctly and the bios states that its 500GB *** appricate ASAP reply and anyone to comment and also if they had this problem, thx

Jonny. :confused:
 
Is this a fresh install onto the new disk? If so you'll need a CD with at least SP1 integrated onto it to support disks bigger than 128GB.

However, if you update to SP2 you can then use the likes of Partition Magic or GParted to expand the existing partition to the full size of the disk.
 
install .net 2 framework
install nlite
download "SP2 full" it's 270mb ish
copy your xp disc to C:\XPCD

open nlite, choose C:\XPCD, click 'service pack slipstream' and 'create iso/cd' (whatever they say)

use nlite to slipstream sp2 into your files, then use nlite to create a new disc

install with this new disc.
 
^ Best way. You can also do some other useful stuff like pre-setting the timezone, the system language, the CD key etc to cut down the amount of interaction needed.
 
Hey, thanks for the fast reply i just tryed downloading the program and as i exspected i found a nice little virus heehe, uhm any of u know a virus free 1 or a link to where to get for free and also will it be hard to do the partition thing. thanks
 
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