Re: 70 GB disc space disappeared after partitioning and formatting new 200 GB HDD

From: Not Me (nobody_at_nowhere.net)
Date: 11/27/04 

Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 09:17:24 -0500

YOU MUST have SP1 or above [you should have SP2 by now] installed for XP
to recognize any size exceeding 137GB. Once you accomplish that, Maxtor
has a small free utility you can download named "Big Drive Enabler"
which will ensure that all the necessary registry changes are/have been
  accomplished to recognize sizes above 137GB. You can get that
here:http://www.maxtor.com/portal/site/Maxtor/menuitem.3c67e325e0a6b1f6294198b091346068/?channelpath=/en_us/Support/Software%20Downloads/ATA%20Hard%20Drives&downloadID=11
                            Gene K

Per Magnus L?vold wrote:
> Hi, all!
> I just purchased a new HDD; a Seagate Barracuda 200GB.
> I put it in my Shuttle barebone PC, and started installing Win XP on
> it.
> I created a new primary partition (NTFS) at 40 GB for the operating
> system.
> After installing XP, only the OS partition appeared. So I entered disk
> manager tool, and created a new primary partition of the rest of the
> space on the disc. In the disc manager tool this appeared as only
> ~87GB, but I hoped it would realize there was more space while
> formatting or something, so I set it to format "the rest of the HDD
> space".
> But now it is all finished, and I only have about 130 GB HDD space(!).
> Disc manager tool tells me that there is no space left on the HDD...
>
> I couldn't find any posts on this subject (only one in chineese
> letters). Anybody got an idea of what could be wrong?
> Both partitions are defined as primary partitions, and formatted as
> NTFS.
>
> Hope someone can help me with this!
>
> Regards, PML

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