XP x64 Secondary HD and Drivers

[Guest waruta]

Hello All,

 

Been searching the archives for a while and I still can't find the answer

i'm looking for; when I installed my second 500 GB hard disk, I went to Disk

Management and everything went smoothly except for the fact that I am only

left with 465GB of space. I understand that I won't be able to use the full

500 gigs but losing 36gb seems a bit excessive to me. Are there any

workarounds or did I do something wrong?

 

Also , when installing certain devices such as a smart card reader or usb

data link, they don't support the x64 version of Xp I'm running, and I can't

get them to work, even if I try and install the vista drivers or install them

to my x86 program file folders. Is there any way to force them to recognize

the drivers or an alternative besides using a virtual machine to run these

programs when I need them?

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Waruta

[Guest Dominic Payer]

Re: XP x64 Secondary HD and Drivers

 

Hard disk drive manufacturers assume that 1 GB equals to 1 billion (10^9)

bytes, while 1 GB equals 1,073,741,824 (2^30) bytes.

 

500x10^9/1,073,741,824=465.66GB which is the available space you are seeing.

 

 

Vista drivers are unlikely to work with XP x64. You need specific XP x64

drivers and these may not be available. A VM is the way to go.

 

 

 

"waruta" <waruta@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:944E3D48-C6E9-4D4E-90CF-DEE5A04C58DB@microsoft.com...

> Hello All,

>

> Been searching the archives for a while and I still can't find the

> answer

> i'm looking for; when I installed my second 500 GB hard disk, I went to

> Disk

> Management and everything went smoothly except for the fact that I am only

> left with 465GB of space. I understand that I won't be able to use the

> full

> 500 gigs but losing 36gb seems a bit excessive to me. Are there any

> workarounds or did I do something wrong?

>

> Also , when installing certain devices such as a smart card reader or usb

> data link, they don't support the x64 version of Xp I'm running, and I

> can't

> get them to work, even if I try and install the vista drivers or install

> them

> to my x86 program file folders. Is there any way to force them to

> recognize

> the drivers or an alternative besides using a virtual machine to run these

> programs when I need them?

>

> Thanks in advance,

>

> Waruta

[Guest John Barnes]

Re: XP x64 Secondary HD and Drivers

 

Make sure you check the version of the VM you use as all do not support USB

 

"Dominic Payer" <dominic@dcp.fsv.co.uk> wrote in message

news:876FE51B-38E1-4C81-A962-A0F918B55FBD@microsoft.com...

> Hard disk drive manufacturers assume that 1 GB equals to 1 billion (10^9)

> bytes, while 1 GB equals 1,073,741,824 (2^30) bytes.

>

> 500x10^9/1,073,741,824=465.66GB which is the available space you are

> seeing.

>

>

> Vista drivers are unlikely to work with XP x64. You need specific XP x64

> drivers and these may not be available. A VM is the way to go.

>

>

>

> "waruta" <waruta@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

> news:944E3D48-C6E9-4D4E-90CF-DEE5A04C58DB@microsoft.com...

>> Hello All,

>>

>> Been searching the archives for a while and I still can't find the

>> answer

>> i'm looking for; when I installed my second 500 GB hard disk, I went to

>> Disk

>> Management and everything went smoothly except for the fact that I am

>> only

>> left with 465GB of space. I understand that I won't be able to use the

>> full

>> 500 gigs but losing 36gb seems a bit excessive to me. Are there any

>> workarounds or did I do something wrong?

>>

>> Also , when installing certain devices such as a smart card reader or usb

>> data link, they don't support the x64 version of Xp I'm running, and I

>> can't

>> get them to work, even if I try and install the vista drivers or install

>> them

>> to my x86 program file folders. Is there any way to force them to

>> recognize

>> the drivers or an alternative besides using a virtual machine to run

>> these

>> programs when I need them?

>>

>> Thanks in advance,

>>

>> Waruta

>