Re: Windows XP can't use more than 128GB??
From: Ezekiel (Ezekiel_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/23/04
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Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 02:21:01 -0800
Correct, she has a 250GB drive with a single partition, and it works perfectly.
"Ron Sommer" wrote:
> Are you saying a 250 GB drive with one partition?
> --
> Ron Sommer
>
> "Ezekiel" <Ezekiel@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:9AA2A1DF-2853-4D84-ACF5-8C98DCB7A0AE@microsoft.com...
> >I have though of the hidden file thing, and set windows to display as many
> >as
> > it can. Likewise, I have already turned down the system restore to the
> > min
> > it can go, 1%. I've also had one of my friends mention the whole cluster
> > overhang thing, but even he agreed it would never account for over 20
> > gigs.
> >
> > And even if it did have something to do with that, how would that explain
> > what origonally happened when I installed Windows? The only thing I had
> > on
> > the drive was Windows and SP1, yet it told me that almost 30 gigs were
> > already full?
> >
> > As an other interesting note, my sister has an identical computer, and
> > recently got a new 250GB drive, and installed a version of Windows XP that
> > has SP2 built in. It detected her drive as 250GB right off the bat, and
> > is
> > correctly reading all her data. In other words, when she hilights
> > everything
> > and goes properties, it is showing the same value as the "My Computer"
> > display, within a gig or so. This holds true even now that she has
> > installed a bunch of other stuff on it, besides just Windows.
> >
> > This leads me to believe that perhaps because I installed Windows, and
> > then
> > installed SP1, my computer can recognize the full drive, but not use it
> > all
> > for some reason. So it seems the only solution would be to reformat and
> > reinstall a version of Windows with either SP1 or SP2 built in. However
> > if
> > there is any other way to fix it, that would be better.
> >
> >
> >
> > "Alex Nichol" wrote:
> >
> >> Ezekiel wrote:
> >>
> >> >I'm not saying it won't let me make more than a 128GB partition. What
> >> >is
> >> >happening is this:
> >> >
> >> >I go into "My Computer" and hilight the drive. Then if I look at the
> >> >stats
> >> >it gives on the left, it says:
> >> >
> >> >Locak Disk (C:)
> >> >Local Disk
> >> >File System: NTFS
> >> >Free Space 41 GB
> >> >Total Size 152 GB
> >> >
> >> >so doing some simple math, 152-41=111 ,so it thinks I have 111 GB of
> >> >stuff.
> >> >However, if I open up the C drive, and select everything, and then right
> >> >click and go "Properties" it tallies it all up to 80 GB,
> >>
> >> Then you are talking of something *entirely* different from what you
> >> originally implied. XP has a lot of 'superhidden' files. Have Folder
> >> Options - View set to show Hidden files, and *not* Hide Protected mode
> >> ones and you will see them. In particular System Volume Information,
> >> which contains the Restore points, is allowed up to 12% of the drive -
> >> nearly 20GB on yours. This is far too much for its own good, and you
> >> are liable to find it tripping over itself. Go to Control Panel -
> >> System - System Restore, highlight the drive, Settings, and reduce the
> >> slider to, I suggest, about 1000 MB (if you can get it to go below 1%)
> >>
> >> As a further comment I would never make a C partition of that size.
> >> Keep system and programs to themselves, in a reasonably compact
> >> partition (under 20GB certainly) and have the rest as a separate one for
> >> the data. Then if you have cause for an emergency rebuild/restoration
> >> of the system the data is not involved (though really important things
> >> should still be backed up, independently)
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
> >> Bournemouth, U.K. Alexn@mvps.D8E8L.org (remove the D8 bit)
> >>
>
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