New HDD only showing 130gb?! Quick Help!

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New HDD only showing 127gb?! Quick Help!

Just rebuilt my pc and purchased a seagate barracuada 250gb HDD with Gigabyte 965P-DS3.

The HDD is only coming up as total size of 127Gb when it should be double that?

Any idea why?
 
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No,

Patch your install up to Service Pack 1, dont install SP2 quite yet....
Once SP1 is installed, you can run a command called DISKPART from the command prompt (or start / run / command)

Once your in diskpart type
select disk 1 (or 2,3.... depending on the config. type list disk to find out)
then
select part 1 (if you have multiple partitions then use list part and pick what you want)
finally
extend (this will extend the partition from 127gig to whatever size the disk is)

If you perfer to partition the disk into several partitions, then you can skip diskpart altogether and just make additional partitions.

If you make the 'mistake' of installing SP2 before extending the disk, DISKPART will tell you that you cant extend the system/boot partition. However SP1 allows it. Thats why you need to change the partition size before installing SP2.

Your other option is as you say, get a Windows XP+SP2 install CD. (Again SP1 is sufficient, anything newer that the original release supports larger partitions.)

Once this is done, you can then install service pack two.
 
no, dont follow that guide. follow this its much easier


C:\> DISKPART

Microsoft DiskPart version 5.2.3790
Copyright (C) 1999-2001 Microsoft Corporation.
On computer: MCSS2

DISKPART> LIST DISK

Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt

-------- ---------- ---------- ------- --- ---

Disk 0 Online 8 GB 0 B

Disk 1 Online 5114 MB 0 B

Disk 2 Online 210 GB 10 GB

Disk 3 Online 20 GB 0 B

Disk 4 Online 20 GB 0 B

DISKPART> SELECT DISK 2

Disk 2 is now the selected disk.

DISKPART> LIST PART

Partition ### Type Size Offset

------------- ---------------- ------- -------

Partition 1 Primary 200 GB 32 KB

DISKPART> SELECT PART 1

Partition 1 is now the selected partition.

DISKPART> EXTEND

DiskPart successfully extended the volume.



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from http://www.microsoft.com/technet/itshowcase/content/diskpartnoteonit.mspx
 
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