Partitioning in Vista

Amp34 · 26 Sep 2006 at 19:39

I got a new HDD today and after installing it the only way of getting it to show was to put the XP disk in and partition it. The only problem is it is showing as 127 GB (instead of 250GB). My old disk is also missing about 30 GB (160GB), this issue I had before. I assume its something to do with the HDD size problem (although I thought that was 137GB) problem of the original XP (disk I am using is before SP1).

Is there any program I can use to remedy this problem in Vista? I downloaded a trial version of Partition magic but it has compatability issues.

Amp34 · 27 Sep 2006 at 11:31

Bump. Any ideas?

Thanks

marmalade · 27 Sep 2006 at 11:37

Just a guess! But would XP with SP2 incorporated show the full size?
Autostreamer is a tool that makes slipstreaming very simple. 'er:
http://mhtools.knoware.nl/raptor/autostreamer/AutoStreamer.exe

Amp34 · 29 Sep 2006 at 17:20

Thats what I did eventually, I slipstreamed SP2 into the disk using nlite and when formatting in setup it showed the right space.

bledd · 29 Sep 2006 at 20:19

you can also integrate all windowsupdate hotfixes

http://www.ryanvm.net/msfn/

choose hotfix option in nlite