Only 127GB on a 500gb hd

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Only 127GB on a 500gb SATA hd

I just installed xp pro with services pack 2 on my new pc and my hard drive says its only 127GB when its a 500GB hard drive before I installed the OS I looked in the bios and it said it was 500gigs I tried plugging it in to another pc and it still told me it was only 127GB and when I installed the os that what it said it is :confused:

Thanks for your help in advance
 
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Is your XP disc SP 2 or did you install it seperate?

Otherwise it is a hardware limitation with the ATA controller and 32bit LBA addressing.
 
tlarkin said:
Is your XP disc SP 2 or did you install it seperate?

Otherwise it is a hardware limitation with the ATA controller and 32bit LBA addressing.
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no it was an original xp disc no service pack and I installed service pack 1 and 2 seperatly what should I do?:confused:
 
I think that win XP pre SP1 (original release) did not have full on 48bit ATA adressing support, therefore there is a limitation on how big a HD can be, which is 128/137 (depending on how you count gigabytes) GB limit.

I would get a hold of a newer disc or partition your HD for 127 for the OS/apps, update it, then in disk manager format the rest for data.
 
kof2000 said:
either slipstream service pack 2 or buy a pci controller card that will bypass this limit.
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what do you mean by slipstream

tlarkin said:
I think that win XP pre SP1 (original release) did not have full on 48bit ATA adressing support, therefore there is a limitation on how big a HD can be, which is 128/137 (depending on how you count gigabytes) GB limit.

I would get a hold of a newer disc or partition your HD for 127 for the OS/apps, update it, then in disk manager format the rest for data.
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is partion magic free and will that do the job?

Edit:is this what I want
 
slipstream requires you to recreate the windows cd with the service pack 2 in it.

patition magic is not free. try gparted.
 
kof2000 said:
either slipstream service pack 2 or buy a pci controller card that will bypass this limit.
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the PCI work around only works if its a hardware limitation on ATA 5 controllers, where as I think this particular issue is the fact that Win XP first release somehow did not have 48bit ATA support in the OS until SP1
 
tlarkin said:
the PCI work around only works if its a hardware limitation on ATA 5 controllers, where as I think this particular issue is the fact that Win XP first release somehow did not have 48bit ATA support in the OS until SP1
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as far as I know the xp pro cd had sp1 and my boss said it has sp1 and I installed sp1 all by itself and I also installed sp2 afterwards I can get partion magic and will that do it?
 
ok the problem is hardware based then, because SP1 fixes the issue with no 48bit LBA support. A PCI card is your answer because its a hardware limitation no matter how you try to accomplish this with software the computer will always ID it as 137GB

However, I am confused because you said your BIOS sees it as 500GB, which would leave me to believe your XP CD does not include SP 1 on it. I would make for certain your XP install CD has at least SP1 bundled in it, SP2 would be better.
 
thanks for all the help but I think partition magic would do it does partition magic make it so that I can have one 500 gig partion on it? and is there anyway that I can make my corporate have sp1 or sp2 on it if it doesn't because in the xp setup it said that there was only one partition and that was 130 gigs

I don't think it has has sp1 on it but my boss says it does and its his cd

Thanks again

thanks stranglehold for the links i'll try that
 
Jabes said:
thanks for all the help but I think partition magic would do it does partition magic make it so that I can have one 500 gig partion on it? and is there anyway that I can make my corporate have sp1 or sp2 on it if it doesn't because in the xp setup it said that there was only one partition and that was 130 gigs

I don't think it has has sp1 on it but my boss says it does and its his cd

Thanks again

thanks stranglehold for the links i'll try that
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No it won't because the OS (aka windows) can not recognize any volume over 137GB in size. It won't work it is a problem with the OS not with the drive or the partition or the hardware, unless you have an older motherboard with an ATA 5 controller on it, which I doubt.
 
Yeap, until he slipstreams SP2 to his cd he can partition the drive with anything he wants to and the cd will still only see 137gbs.
 
I'll try that I got my comp back at work and I work on it tomorrow just one more question do I have to put sp1 in with the slipstream or just sp2?

thanks for all your help guys
 
TheMajor said:
Can you post a screenshot of Disk Manager?
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I'm not on that pc and I know it only says 127 gigs I'll try slipstreaming it and if that doesn't work I'll post a screenshot but that won't be till tomorrow
 
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Just SP2, No it just adds the SP2 files to XP cd files, then you burn it as bootable cd, you will have to reinstall, or if you already have XP installed and dont want to reinstall again just install SP2 on it, go to disk management and partition and format the rest of the drive
 
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sorry I'm a nub at slipstreaming does that wipe the os?

and I don't think my xp has sp1 even on it cause I had to install sp1 and sp2 but i still don't have to slistream both?
 
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