Hard drive question.

haynea4f · 05-28-2006, 12:03 AM

I know this has probably ben asked a thousand times but I will ask it again. My situation is a little different I think.

I just got done building my computer (specs below). I have my 250 GB HD but I am only getting 127gb on my C: drive. I read somewhere that windows SP2 corrects this limit but after installing SP2 it was still only reading 127gb.

I want the rest of my hard drive space back. Do I have to create a new partition? I wouold rather put 250gb on one partition.

All of my programs are already installed. I have spent the last 2 days trying to perfect my PC only to just realize that I didnt partition my hard drive before installing everything.

Any way I can do this without losing all of my stuff?

computermaineack · 05-28-2006, 04:43 AM

Have you installed the driver? A lot of hard drives need the driver to installed for windows to see all 250gb. I'm pretty sure when I installed my new harddrive I read something about windows not recognizing more than 127gb if you don't have the drivers and service packs and what not installed.

Dr Studly · 05-28-2006, 04:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by haynea4f

I know this has probably ben asked a thousand times but I will ask it again. My situation is a little different I think.

I just got done building my computer (specs below). I have my 250 GB HD but I am only getting 127gb on my C: drive. I read somewhere that windows SP2 corrects this limit but after installing SP2 it was still only reading 127gb.

I want the rest of my hard drive space back. Do I have to create a new partition? I wouold rather put 250gb on one partition.

All of my programs are already installed. I have spent the last 2 days trying to perfect my PC only to just realize that I didnt partition my hard drive before installing everything.

Any way I can do this without losing all of my stuff?

hmm... Off Topic: this computer looks like something i configured...lol
is it?

u would have to back up all your stuff it wanted to make it one partition.... sorry... if u just went ahead and did it u would lose all your stuff... i beleive

meanman · 05-28-2006, 09:55 AM

you will have to create a partition right click my computer and left click manage then click disk management and you should see it as unallocated just format it from there

05-28-2006, 12:03 AM	#1 (permalink)
haynea4f Silver Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 127	Hard drive question. I know this has probably ben asked a thousand times but I will ask it again. My situation is a little different I think. I just got done building my computer (specs below). I have my 250 GB HD but I am only getting 127gb on my C: drive. I read somewhere that windows SP2 corrects this limit but after installing SP2 it was still only reading 127gb. I want the rest of my hard drive space back. Do I have to create a new partition? I wouold rather put 250gb on one partition. All of my programs are already installed. I have spent the last 2 days trying to perfect my PC only to just realize that I didnt partition my hard drive before installing everything. Any way I can do this without losing all of my stuff? __________________ _____________________________________________ -- ASUS A8N-SLI Premium Socket 939 -- AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ Dual Core Processor -- ASPIRE X-CRUISE case -- ASUS EN7900GTX 512MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 -- CORSAIR XMS 2GB (2 x 1GB) DDR 400 (PC 3200) -- Seagate Barracuda 250GB 7200 RPM SATA150 -- Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic 7.1 -- Rosewill RP550-2 ATX 2.01 550W Power Supply -- STILL DECIDING ON DUAL MONITORS--ANY SUGGESTIONS?

05-28-2006, 04:43 AM	#2 (permalink)
computermaineack Diamond Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Connecticut Posts: 2,260	Have you installed the driver? A lot of hard drives need the driver to installed for windows to see all 250gb. I'm pretty sure when I installed my new harddrive I read something about windows not recognizing more than 127gb if you don't have the drivers and service packs and what not installed. __________________ "Former Clinton advisor Dick Morris said, "Hillary Clinton will be the next President, but she'll be the worst President we've ever seen." After hearing this, President Bush said, "Wait a minute, I'm not finished yet."" -Conan O'Brien CPU: Q6600 G0 Mobo: eVGA 680i NF67-A1 Case: Antec P180B GPU: eVGA 8800GTS G92 512mb HSF: Tuniq Tower 120 RAM: 4gb DDR2-800 Corsair XMS2 4-4-4-12 PSU: Antec True Power Trio 550w

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05-28-2006, 09:55 AM	#4 (permalink)
meanman Diamond Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: england Posts: 1,788	you will have to create a partition right click my computer and left click manage then click disk management and you should see it as unallocated just format it from there