Wheres me other 100gig gone?

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I've just installed an ide, 250g samsung spinpoint, and in windows theres only 127gig capacity showing. I know that the jumper is set to master so thats ok.
Anyone here know how I can get me other 100gig back, cheers.
 
yeh this isnt going to be much help. but i know that windows xp has a problem with drives which are larger than 127gb. have you tried doing the windows updates? you got sp2 all up and running?

did it come with a disc ? that might have a problem to sort it out
 
Do as the Dutch Guy says and if you did FAT32 you can convert without formatting from command prompt with the convert command + switches. SP1 onwards enabled 48-bit LBA support (drives over 127GB).
 
Dutch Guy said:
rightclick My Computer and select Manage, then go to Disk Management on the left and click that.
What does it say on the right?
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O/S is windoze XP pro. I've had a look in disc management and it reports "NTFS" with 127.99 gig hard drive size.
I've installed bucket loads of 160g-200g hard drives before now and never had a prob like this. I'm gonna try reformatting in dos using a win98 boot floppy as this is how I normally do it. This time I just loaded the O/S straight onto the hard drive and let windows partition and format it.
I'll post back with the results in a coupla hours.
 
Ok, went into Dos, ran "FDISK", partitioned, formatted, installed windows, now showing 243gig capacity, so I've basically got me 100 gig back :)
It appears it was down to letting windows partition and format that gave the probs, I'll stick to the original way from here on in. thanks for the help guys.
 
pieman i run windows xp pro no service packs none of the updates

i currently have a 120G and am rapidly running out of space
im looking at getting a single 200GB + IDE HD but do not want to run service packs in order for it to show its full size and work properly

id rather get a second 120 than install microsofts rubbish updates and nonsense

is your method to get standard windows xp to show full capacity of large drives

1) stick in windows 98 boot disk and format as ntfs then exit
2) stick in windows xp disc and load it as normal

thx
 
hhhhbk said:
pieman i run windows xp pro no service packs none of the updates

i currently have a 120G and am rapidly running out of space
im looking at getting a single 200GB + IDE HD but do not want to run service packs in order for it to show its full size and work properly

id rather get a second 120 than install microsofts rubbish updates and nonsense

is your method to get standard windows xp to show full capacity of large drives

1) stick in windows 98 boot disk and format as ntfs then exit
2) stick in windows xp disc and load it as normal

thx
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Without the service pack, windows will not see it. It requires 48bit LBA support to see any drive over 127GB, which windows did not have. Microsoft's updates are also not rubbish and nonsense. Without that fix, you simply will not be able to use an HDU over 127GB capacity. SP2 is a great upgrade - yes there were teething problems at the beginning due to too much security but all these have been fixed. Wireless network support is massively improved as it all networking. Anyway it's up to you but I'd strongly urge you to update.

And from the microsoft article I posted above -

Microsoft said:
Warning Data corruption may occur if either of the following conditions is true:
• You use this registry value to enable 48-bit LBA support in the original release version of Windows XP Home Edition or of Windows XP Professional.
• You install an earlier version of Windows on a disk partition that was previously created by a 48-bit aware operating system, such as Windows XP SP1. And that disk partition is equal to or larger than the current addressable limit of 137 GB.
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