Johnny Mac Posted March 4, 2008 Report Share Posted March 4, 2008 HELP!Just built a new pc and have a 500Gb SATA Hard drive installed.Just loaded on Windows XP and it's showing as only 240Gb disc capacity!Where can I fix this?The Bios? It was a blank disk so there are no partitions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted March 4, 2008 Report Share Posted March 4, 2008 What version of XP is it? SP1 or SP2?If you check regedit the following value should be 1:HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\atapi\Parameters\EnableBigLba Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Mac Posted March 4, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2008 It's SP2. Which is weird, as I know it's SP1 that can only handle up to 130 odd Gb.I'll check that setting when I get home tonight.Cheers dude. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Neutral Posted March 4, 2008 Report Share Posted March 4, 2008 Might have more than one partition Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Mac Posted March 4, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2008 Might have more than one partitionNo, it's a new drive.I can't get the fucker to work.Anyone any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stripey Posted March 4, 2008 Report Share Posted March 4, 2008 No, it's a new drive.I can't get the fucker to work.Anyone any ideas?try adding a new partition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Mac Posted March 4, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2008 try adding a new partition.I can add new partitions.But i just want 1 partition the full 250Gb.It's a brand new drive with only Windows XP installed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted March 4, 2008 Report Share Posted March 4, 2008 What does it show as in your partition manager? Does it show as the full 500Gb in 1 partition? Or just the 250Gb in one partition? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Mac Posted March 4, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2008 It shows as 137Gb.... like it's SP1, but I have SP2..........Fucking annoying.Really can't be fucked wiping the thing again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emergency72 Posted March 4, 2008 Report Share Posted March 4, 2008 I have never seen any problems with disc sizes in XP.Try running diskpart (from command line) then use LIST DISK to see if it treats the missing space as free space or not. If it does, try booting from an NTFS boot disk and running DISKPART.> DISKPARTDISKPART> LIST DISKDISK ### | Status | Size | Free---------------------------------------Disk 0 | Online | 136 GB | whatever GBDISKPART> SELECT DISK 0 (provding disk 0 is the disk)DISKPART> LIST VOLUME(as above but volumes..)DISKPART> SELECT VOLUME 1 (providing 1 is the volume)DISKPART > EXTENDIt should then extend the partition to the full size... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Mac Posted March 4, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2008 Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]© Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.C:\Documents and Settings\John>diskpartMicrosoft DiskPart version 5.1.3565Copyright © 1999-2003 Microsoft Corporation.On computer: HOMEPC-5FCW6470DISKPART> list disk Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt -------- ---------- ------- ------- --- --- Disk 0 Online 233 GB 105 GBDISKPART> select disk 0Disk 0 is now the selected disk.DISKPART> list volume Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- Volume 0 D GIGABYTE CDFS DVD-ROM 550 MB Volume 1 C NTFS Partition 128 GB Healthy SystemDISKPART> select volume 1Volume 1 is the selected volume.DISKPART> extendDiskPart failed to extend the volume.Please make sure the volume is valid for extending.DISKPART>Nae working, gay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Neutral Posted March 4, 2008 Report Share Posted March 4, 2008 <1> Click start menu<2> Click Run<3> Type diskmgmt.msc<4> Maximise it and take a screenshot<5> Post it up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Mac Posted March 4, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2008 Still showing as 120 odd Gb.Updated my BIOS too, but that has done nothing.Driving me isane!Hard Drive Capacity Problem - Help! - TechSpot TroubleshootingFound that article about 48-Bit LBA..... and windows XP service packs.I'm stumped. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stripey Posted March 4, 2008 Report Share Posted March 4, 2008 Um, that is not a 500 gig drive. Look at what is detected by the bios at boot time, because you appear to have a 250 gig drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Mac Posted March 4, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2008 Um, that is not a 500 gig drive. Look at what is detected by the bios at boot time, because you appear to have a 250 gig drive.Yeah sorry, I put a 250 in to try it earlier.Same thing as was happening with the 500 though.In the BIOS it comes up fine as 250Gb, it's just when windows loads it reverts to 127Gb.I'm formatting the unallocated space that is on the disc and putting a new partition in........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emergency72 Posted March 4, 2008 Report Share Posted March 4, 2008 Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]© Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.C:\Documents and Settings\John>diskpartMicrosoft DiskPart version 5.1.3565Copyright © 1999-2003 Microsoft Corporation.On computer: HOMEPC-5FCW6470DISKPART> list disk Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt -------- ---------- ------- ------- --- --- Disk 0 Online 233 GB 105 GBDISKPART> select disk 0Disk 0 is now the selected disk.DISKPART> list volume Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- Volume 0 D GIGABYTE CDFS DVD-ROM 550 MB Volume 1 C NTFS Partition 128 GB Healthy SystemDISKPART> select volume 1Volume 1 is the selected volume.DISKPART> extendDiskPart failed to extend the volume.Please make sure the volume is valid for extending.DISKPART>Nae working, gay.Read my post again...boot with an NTFS boot disk (perhaps the windows recovery console has diskpart?)....you can't extend a boot volume when it's live!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Neutral Posted March 4, 2008 Report Share Posted March 4, 2008 Yeah sorry, I put a 250 in to try it earlier.Same thing as was happening with the 500 though.In the BIOS it comes up fine as 250Gb, it's just when windows loads it reverts to 127Gb.I'm formatting the unallocated space that is on the disc and putting a new partition in........can you post a fullscreen one, it may be more helpfulPut the hdd in as a slave hdd then use diskmgr.msc to format/merge the partitionsIs it xp home or pro? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattJimF Posted March 5, 2008 Report Share Posted March 5, 2008 same problem solved here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Neutral Posted March 5, 2008 Report Share Posted March 5, 2008 Some manufacturers partition the disk to be supported by xp1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Neutral Posted March 5, 2008 Report Share Posted March 5, 2008 MattJimFsame problem solved hereIt's SP2. Which is weird, as I know it's SP1 that can only handle up to 130 odd Gb.I'll check that setting when I get home tonight.Cheers dude.Im assuming sp2 is installed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Mac Posted March 5, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2008 Im assuming sp2 is installedSp2 is indeed installed. It made no difference.I've just used the empty space that disk manager found to create another partition, so i've got 2 120Gb spaces.That should keep me going, i'll just put all my documents etc on the second partition.Thanks for all your help guys.Would still like to work out how to fix this issue at some point.... bloody computers. Ah well, at least I updated my BIOS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Neutral Posted March 5, 2008 Report Share Posted March 5, 2008 Sp2 is indeed installed. It made no difference.I've just used the empty space that disk manager found to create another partition, so i've got 2 120Gb spaces.That should keep me going, i'll just put all my documents etc on the second partition.Thanks for all your help guys.Would still like to work out how to fix this issue at some point.... bloody computers. Ah well, at least I updated my BIOS Next time you reinstall windows delete bolth partitions and create one large one, it is possible the manufacturers partitioned it with smaller ones so that it is compatible with pre sp2 xp and other older os's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Mac Posted March 5, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2008 Will do, thanks for your help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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