HOW DO I FIX THIS PROBLEM? I BOUGHT A 250 GB HD, BUT ONLY SAYS 127 GB..I UPDATED TO WINDOWS XP PROFESSIONAL SP2...MY COMPUTER IS AMD XP 2000, 512 MB RAM DDR

3/27/2006 6:45:19 PM

someone tricked you and sold you a drive missing half the platters.

go find them and kick their ass.

[Edited on March 27, 2006 at 6:54 PM. Reason : sp.]

3/27/2006 6:52:50 PM

Make sure its SP2 ... if it's any other version, thats one problem. Otherwise, update the BIOS on your motherboard.

3/27/2006 7:00:45 PM

update bios would be a quick thing to try

3/27/2006 7:02:57 PM

at least this wasn't a "my 80gb hdd only shows as 74gb"

3/27/2006 7:16:08 PM

UPGRADE YOUR CDROM DEVICE

3/27/2006 7:41:04 PM

Go to the website of the harddrive manufacturer, and download the tool. If it's maxtor or seagate it does everything for you. This way you don't have to worry about updating the bios and fucking that up if you do it wrong (not that it's usually hard).

3/27/2006 7:53:55 PM

Quote :

"at least this wasn't a "my 80gb hdd only shows as 74gb"

yeah.. i was about to start complaining and then i looked at the numbers again...

then i was like... waaaaaiiit a minute

3/27/2006 8:01:34 PM

this is a google question - but oh well

3/27/2006 8:59:22 PM

check the jumpers on the back

3/27/2006 11:30:41 PM

How old is your system? Nevermind..

You need to convert to NTFS file system.

Reply back if you need help to do that.

Go here for instructions on how to convert
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/convertfat.mspx

[Edited on March 28, 2006 at 12:31 AM. Reason : .]

[Edited on March 28, 2006 at 12:40 AM. Reason : link]

3/28/2006 12:23:11 AM

go to disk manager and make sure it shows only 127 gb. i have a 160 that was showing 120 for a while until i reformatted it since it was never formatted right in the first place.

3/28/2006 1:36:05 AM

^
You probably installed with an original version of Windows, not SP2. Once the service pack was installed, problem fixed. The original versions didn't allow disk support that high.

And I agree with OmarBadu ... definitely a Google/Wikipedia/TWW search question.

[Edited on March 28, 2006 at 5:41 AM. Reason : .]

3/28/2006 5:32:22 AM

convert /fs:ntfs c:

3/28/2006 6:05:36 AM

^^ Windows NT 4 supported NTFS partitions up to 16 exabytes (16 * 1024^6 -- that's like 75 million times as big as that hard disk).

Microsoft did not implement some kind of hard disk capacity throttling for no reason.

[Edited on March 28, 2006 at 10:28 AM. Reason : ]

3/28/2006 10:27:08 AM

check the disk in bios, how large does it read as? if it only reads as 128gb, then upgrade your bios.

if not,

check the jumpers on the back, some hard drives let you limit them to 128gb for restrictions on mobo's and os's.

3/28/2006 11:13:08 AM

look for LBA (large block addressing) in the hard drive's manual. There's probably a jumper to disable it and it might be set.

3/28/2006 11:53:52 AM

I think when I installed it, it did it as NTFS...could it be I first installed windows xp on the new hard drive, but it wasnt sp2 version yet. After I installed windows xp, I think upgraded to sp2 using the microsoft update on their website.

3/28/2006 1:50:44 PM

Deez who made the harddrive?

3/28/2006 2:25:04 PM

When you installed XP did you delete any existing partition and reformat? (You can do it in setup, don't choose a quick format.)

3/28/2006 2:48:51 PM

it is a new hard drive when i installed xp...its a seagate

3/28/2006 11:23:30 PM