Re: How to get XP Pro to recognize a WD 200GB HDD??

From: Shenan Stanley (news_helper_at_hushmail.com)
Date: 12/19/04 

Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 04:00:27 -0600

CHOUT wrote:
> I am trying to figure out how to get XP Pro to see my WD 200GB hard
> drive as a 200 and not a 137GB. Any clues? I know this story well but
> have never had to deal with it until now. Will the SP2 update rectify
> this by any chance? Thus far I have only partitioned it to C: at
> 12GB. The rest is untouched. I will wait to see what is up from some
> responses here first before proceeding any further. Cheers to all the
> for the help and Happy Holidaze!

Does your hardware (BIOS) recognize the full size of the hard drive?
What does Disk Manager see?
Do you not have at least SP1?

If you have at least SP1 installed and your hardware recognizes the hard
drive, then Windows XP will recognize the hard drive. You *will not* get
200GB out of it... But that has more to do with marketing than what OS you
use. 

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