Guest Ivan Posted August 20, 2007 Posted August 20, 2007 hi i just purchased a 320 gig hardrive Seagate when i went to install xp and make a partition its only showing 131gig and nothing else. ANyone know why
Guest Rich Barry Posted August 20, 2007 Posted August 20, 2007 Re: 320gig hdd only showing 131gig Ivan, go to Windows Update and download and install SP2. Once that's done XP will recognize the rest of the hard drive You can create other Partitions from the Unallocated Space. Just rt click MyComputer>select Manage>Disk Management. Rt click on the Unallocated Space and choose create Logical Drive. "Ivan" <Ivan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:AF9D77D0-81D7-49A7-841F-B2EEB84DA76D@microsoft.com... > hi i just purchased a 320 gig hardrive Seagate > > when i went to install xp and make a partition its only showing 131gig and > nothing else. > > ANyone know why >
Guest Gary S. Terhune Posted August 20, 2007 Posted August 20, 2007 Re: 320gig hdd only showing 131gig You have lost nothing. A 320 GB hard drive only has 312.5 GB as seen by Windows. The reason is that HD manufacturers use a decimal system to count, and Windows uses a binary system. In decimal, 1000 bytes is 1KB, 1000 KB is a MB, etc. In Windows (and most software, if not all) 1024 bytes is a KB, 1024 KB = 1 MB, etc. Do the math. Both calculations yield the same number of bytes. PS -- Ignore Rich Barry's advice. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User http://www.grystmill.com "Ivan" <Ivan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:AF9D77D0-81D7-49A7-841F-B2EEB84DA76D@microsoft.com... > hi i just purchased a 320 gig hardrive Seagate > > when i went to install xp and make a partition its only showing 131gig and > nothing else. > > ANyone know why >
Guest Peter Foldes Posted August 20, 2007 Posted August 20, 2007 Re: 320gig hdd only showing 131gig Gary A 320 Gig drive showing only 131 gigs ??? I think you misread the OP's post a bit. -- Peter Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. "Gary S. Terhune" <none> wrote in message news:eTQ6DRt4HHA.5160@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > You have lost nothing. A 320 GB hard drive only has 312.5 GB as seen by > Windows. The reason is that HD manufacturers use a decimal system to count, > and Windows uses a binary system. In decimal, 1000 bytes is 1KB, 1000 KB is > a MB, etc. In Windows (and most software, if not all) 1024 bytes is a KB, > 1024 KB = 1 MB, etc. Do the math. Both calculations yield the same number of > bytes. > > PS -- Ignore Rich Barry's advice. > > -- > Gary S. Terhune > MS-MVP Shell/User > http://www.grystmill.com > > "Ivan" <Ivan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:AF9D77D0-81D7-49A7-841F-B2EEB84DA76D@microsoft.com... >> hi i just purchased a 320 gig hardrive Seagate >> >> when i went to install xp and make a partition its only showing 131gig and >> nothing else. >> >> ANyone know why >> > >
Guest Lil' Dave Posted August 20, 2007 Posted August 20, 2007 Re: 320gig hdd only showing 131gig "Ivan" <Ivan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:AF9D77D0-81D7-49A7-841F-B2EEB84DA76D@microsoft.com... > hi i just purchased a 320 gig hardrive Seagate > > when i went to install xp and make a partition its only showing 131gig and > nothing else. > > ANyone know why > Not familiar with your PC. You need both bios support, and XP SP1 or greater to "see" a drive greater than 132GB for partitioning its entirety. XP SP1 or SP2 can "see" partitions on an added hard drive that already exist from another computer beyond 132GB. But, if your PC, for instance, didn't have bios support for such a larger capacity hard drive. That's all you can do with it is read it. Dave
Guest Ivan Posted August 20, 2007 Posted August 20, 2007 Re: 320gig hdd only showing 131gig i started installing xp and when i got to the bit where i can create partitions it said only 131 available and that was the only one.. once i installed xp right clicked on c: only 131gig there "Peter Foldes" wrote: > Gary > > A 320 Gig drive showing only 131 gigs ??? I think you misread the OP's post a bit. > > -- > Peter > > Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others > Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. > > "Gary S. Terhune" <none> wrote in message news:eTQ6DRt4HHA.5160@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > > You have lost nothing. A 320 GB hard drive only has 312.5 GB as seen by > > Windows. The reason is that HD manufacturers use a decimal system to count, > > and Windows uses a binary system. In decimal, 1000 bytes is 1KB, 1000 KB is > > a MB, etc. In Windows (and most software, if not all) 1024 bytes is a KB, > > 1024 KB = 1 MB, etc. Do the math. Both calculations yield the same number of > > bytes. > > > > PS -- Ignore Rich Barry's advice. > > > > -- > > Gary S. Terhune > > MS-MVP Shell/User > > http://www.grystmill.com > > > > "Ivan" <Ivan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > > news:AF9D77D0-81D7-49A7-841F-B2EEB84DA76D@microsoft.com... > >> hi i just purchased a 320 gig hardrive Seagate > >> > >> when i went to install xp and make a partition its only showing 131gig and > >> nothing else. > >> > >> ANyone know why > >> > > > > >
Guest Gary S. Terhune Posted August 20, 2007 Posted August 20, 2007 Re: 320gig hdd only showing 131gig No kidding. Sheesh! Good thing I took a break when I did, <s>. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User http://www.grystmill.com "Peter Foldes" <okf22@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:ug7o5ot4HHA.1168@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... Gary A 320 Gig drive showing only 131 gigs ??? I think you misread the OP's post a bit. -- Peter Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. "Gary S. Terhune" <none> wrote in message news:eTQ6DRt4HHA.5160@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > You have lost nothing. A 320 GB hard drive only has 312.5 GB as seen by > Windows. The reason is that HD manufacturers use a decimal system to > count, > and Windows uses a binary system. In decimal, 1000 bytes is 1KB, 1000 KB > is > a MB, etc. In Windows (and most software, if not all) 1024 bytes is a KB, > 1024 KB = 1 MB, etc. Do the math. Both calculations yield the same number > of > bytes. > > PS -- Ignore Rich Barry's advice. > > -- > Gary S. Terhune > MS-MVP Shell/User > http://www.grystmill.com > > "Ivan" <Ivan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:AF9D77D0-81D7-49A7-841F-B2EEB84DA76D@microsoft.com... >> hi i just purchased a 320 gig hardrive Seagate >> >> when i went to install xp and make a partition its only showing 131gig >> and >> nothing else. >> >> ANyone know why >> > >
Guest Gary S. Terhune Posted August 20, 2007 Posted August 20, 2007 Re: 320gig hdd only showing 131gig And... My apologies to Rich Barry. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User http://www.grystmill.com "Peter Foldes" <okf22@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:ug7o5ot4HHA.1168@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... Gary A 320 Gig drive showing only 131 gigs ??? I think you misread the OP's post a bit. -- Peter Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. "Gary S. Terhune" <none> wrote in message news:eTQ6DRt4HHA.5160@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > You have lost nothing. A 320 GB hard drive only has 312.5 GB as seen by > Windows. The reason is that HD manufacturers use a decimal system to > count, > and Windows uses a binary system. In decimal, 1000 bytes is 1KB, 1000 KB > is > a MB, etc. In Windows (and most software, if not all) 1024 bytes is a KB, > 1024 KB = 1 MB, etc. Do the math. Both calculations yield the same number > of > bytes. > > PS -- Ignore Rich Barry's advice. > > -- > Gary S. Terhune > MS-MVP Shell/User > http://www.grystmill.com > > "Ivan" <Ivan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:AF9D77D0-81D7-49A7-841F-B2EEB84DA76D@microsoft.com... >> hi i just purchased a 320 gig hardrive Seagate >> >> when i went to install xp and make a partition its only showing 131gig >> and >> nothing else. >> >> ANyone know why >> > >
Guest Paul Randall Posted August 20, 2007 Posted August 20, 2007 Re: 320gig hdd only showing 131gig Hi, Ivan As someone else posted, you may have one or two problems. 1. BIOS -- if your BIOS can't handle drives as large as 320 Gb, then you have to do something to get around this problem. You might be able to update your BIOS (my preference) or install a driver that may have been included on a CD with your hard drive. You can find out whether it is a BIOS problem by hitting some function key (or maybe the escape key) during boot-up, and note the size of the hard drive it sees. 2. The original WXP installation disk's partitioning software may not be able to handle the 320 GB drive, so it reports 131 GB. If this is the case, you might be stuck. The drive could be partitioned by third party software freely availiable on the net, but I don't know whether the original WXP can be safely installed and run to update itself to SP2 on a hard drive whose size it does not recognise. -Paul Randall "Ivan" <Ivan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:AF9D77D0-81D7-49A7-841F-B2EEB84DA76D@microsoft.com... > hi i just purchased a 320 gig hardrive Seagate > > when i went to install xp and make a partition its only showing 131gig and > nothing else. > > ANyone know why >
Guest Andy Posted August 21, 2007 Posted August 21, 2007 Re: 320gig hdd only showing 131gig On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 18:16:00 -0700, Ivan <Ivan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: >hi i just purchased a 320 gig hardrive Seagate > >when i went to install xp and make a partition its only showing 131gig and >nothing else. > >ANyone know why The short answer is you're using the original release of Windows XP, which supported only 28-bit LBA for disk access, limiting its disk addressing to 131,000 MB. Slipstream your XP CD with SP2 to fix the problem.
Guest Ken Blake Posted August 21, 2007 Posted August 21, 2007 Re: 320gig hdd only showing 131gig "Ivan" <Ivan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:AF9D77D0-81D7-49A7-841F-B2EEB84DA76D@microsoft.com... > hi i just purchased a 320 gig hardrive Seagate > > when i went to install xp and make a partition its only showing 131gig and > nothing else. > > ANyone know why Yes. You need two things to support a drive that large: 1. A motherboard with a BIOS and controller that supports 48-bit LBA (or alternatively, an add-in controller card that does). 2. At least SP1 of Windows XP. -- Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User Please reply to the newsgroup
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