Re: Extending a hard drive
- From: Merry <Merry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 14:05:30 -0800
Anna, when I installed the first and the second drive, in both cases, I used
the Western Digital Data Lifeguard Tools from the CD that came with the
drives and booted from the CD. The drives were just the way they left the
factory, pristine. I had no choice - both times - but to accept that the HD
would show only 137 GB. XP, then as now sees that the drive does indeed have
~232 GB, but now recognizes only the 137 GB as usable space. The first drive
- after the successful "extending" into the unallocated space - had one 232
GB partition. I want to repeat my success but, somehow, have been foiled and
do not know why.
"Anna" wrote:
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"Merry" <Merry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I rebuilt a computer with a new 250 GB hard drive. After installing XP, I
was
able to easily extend the 137 GB Drive C to take in all the unallocated
space
BUT I DID NOT KEEP NOTES. After about four weeks, the hard drive died and
was
not even recognized by the BIOS. I replaced the drive with another 250 GB
and
repopulated the hard drive. Now, I cannot extend the 137 GB Drive C to
take
in the unallocated space of 104 GB. I've even tried from Safe Mode but I
get
the same message "Diskpart failed to extend the volume. Please make sure
the
volume is valid for extending." It is hard to understand why I was able
to
extend the first drive but not the second. Help!
"Rich Barry" <rbarry@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Merry, check here.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/325590
You might want to temporarily delete the Page File. The kb article says
that you cannot extend the partiton the page file is on. So rt click
MyComputer>select
Properties>Advanced>Performance-Settings>Advanced>Virtual Memory-Change>
click on NoPageFile and Set, Ok. When you reestablish the Page File chose
System Managed Size>Set, Ok.
Merry;
At least for the moment, let's forget about "extending" page file partitions
or using the Diskpart command to "extend" your 250 GB HD.
Understand this...
There are two basic requirements for the XP OS to recognize the full
capacity of large-capacity drives, i.e., disks > 137 GB (about)...
1. The motherboard's BIOS must recognize large-capacity disks. We'll assume
yours does. And,
2. SP1 and/or SP2 must be installed at the time the drive is installed.
And that's it. If your motherboard's BIOS supports large-capacity disks and
you've installed SP1 and/or SP2 at the time the drive is installed, and the
drive is non-defective and correctly connected/configured, then the full
capacity of your 250 GB HD (actually about 232 GB binary) will be recognized
by the XP OS.
If, when you installed the 250 GB drive neither SP1 or SP2 was installed
then only about 137 GB (usually about 128 GB) will be recognized by the
system. If you LATER install SP1 and/or SP2 (and again assuming your
motherboard's BIOS recognizes large-capacity disks), then the full capacity
of the disk WILL be recognized, but the disk space above 137 GB (128 GB)
will be "unallocated space"; disk space that you can partition/format
(through XP's Disk Management utility), but at the minimum it would mean
your drive would have two partitions.
Anna
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