Help with clean installation
 

I decided to format my PC as it was getting cluttered. The problem I have is with my hard drive. The BIOS reports it as 320GB which is correct, but when I go to format or install XP its only showing it as 132GB. Even after installation it still shows as only being 132GB

Anyone got any ideas why it should do this, or anyone know the solution ?

Cheers

Phil

I had this on a 2nd hard drive, so what I did was stick it in a USB caddy and format it using my laptop, stuck it back in the PC, the BIOS thinks it is 132Gb, but XP now sees it as a full 320 Gb :D

I have also copied 300 Gb of data onto it and it works a treat too

What make of Hard Drive is it? some manufacturers have their own software (like overlay stuff) to enable the extra capacity

The downside for you is that you have already formatted the partition as you have installed XP, although no reason why you cant have it as a D drive, or use something like Partition Manager to extend the C drive once you get the extra space appearing under XP

Steve

thanks Steve, I'll have a play about

Right click on your 'My Computer' icon in Xp and select 'manage' then goto storage and click on device management. What information does it give for your C:/ drive?

my guess here is your copy of XP doesn't have any service packs on it. Pre service pack 1 XP would only recodnise up to 130 Gig hard drives. Slipstream service pack 2 onto the XP disk and all should be well

nLite - Deployment Tool for the bootable Unattended Windows installation

to slipstream

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

for service pack 2:)

:thumb: thats what I was thinking

and as an afterthought

AutoPatcher.com

should help you with patches

http://download.softpedia.com/dl/474...6_ENU_Core.exe

fast link to it, need service pack 2 for it, edited to add that link is quite slow for me at present.....but it ran ace yesterday....Honest:)

Thanks guys. After putting all updates back in (inc SP2) its now showing the extra space as unallocated, so I'll partition that as D drive

cheers

Phil