amolyneaux
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I reformatted my hard drive and it went from 160 gig to 130 gig. Does anyone know what could cause this?
Missing Hdd Space
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The_Other_One
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There's some HD limit with older service packs. Are you sure you didn't install an older one? I'm thinking the limit's higher than 130GB but I don't remember right off.
The limit was ~127GB iirc.
You probably formatted/partitioned with an old version of windows. If you are reinstalling windows when you do this, create a slipstreamed SP2 install (There's a guide here: http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_sp2_slipstream.asp) If you don't want to reinstall, update to SP2 and either use partition magic to resize the partition to the full size or create a 2nd partition with the remaining space.
You probably formatted/partitioned with an old version of windows. If you are reinstalling windows when you do this, create a slipstreamed SP2 install (There's a guide here: http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_sp2_slipstream.asp) If you don't want to reinstall, update to SP2 and either use partition magic to resize the partition to the full size or create a 2nd partition with the remaining space.
amolyneaux
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Partition Magic worked like a charm! Thanks!
A minor correction, the limit appears to be 137GB.
If you didn't have a 48bit enabled OS (ie XP SP1 or later) and you partitioned the drive larger than the addressable limit bad things usually to happen. I just said use SP2 because...well really why not?
I know some people said it screwed up their systems and there were compatability issues but I've not had any on my machines nor have I seen any on any I've had to do work on.
If you didn't have a 48bit enabled OS (ie XP SP1 or later) and you partitioned the drive larger than the addressable limit bad things usually to happen. I just said use SP2 because...well really why not?
I know some people said it screwed up their systems and there were compatability issues but I've not had any on my machines nor have I seen any on any I've had to do work on.