Windows recognizes half of the space of my Sata Drives..

SicilianBoy · 07-04-2005, 12:04 AM

hi there,just to make it quick,i just installed windows xp on my new computer and even though i have 2 maxtor 250 giga sata drives,windows recognizes half of the space of both,instead of 250 it tells me that i have 130 giga!

why is that? anybody ran in this same problem? thanks a lot in advance!

kof2000 · 07-04-2005, 01:36 AM

did you install service pack 1 at least? they is the 137 gb limitation.

SicilianBoy · 07-04-2005, 09:46 AM

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Originally Posted by kof2000

did you install service pack 1 at least? they is the 137 gb limitation.

yeah,i installed windows xp and then installed service pack 2...but it still recognizes me 130 giga...

[-0MEGA-] · 07-04-2005, 02:51 AM

I've installed XP Home w/SP2 and XP Pro w/SP1 on my 200GB hard drive, and it detected the 200GB. So maybe its a problem that only occurs with some hardrive's.

tomb08uk · 07-04-2005, 11:00 AM

Need to install service pack 2! as i hasd this issue, which means you will HAVE to have a legal copy of Windows as wiont allow it to work whether you download or install from cd. Then say if drive was 160gb like i have then will appear as 150gb, though the spac is still their.

**Praetor** · 07-10-2005, 03:57 PM

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Need to install service pack 2!

Wow reading is limited on this thread

@SicilianBoy ... make sure you have 48bit LBA enabled in BIOS

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