250gb hdd internal... winxp only recg. 132gb?

Question

i bought a 250gb hdd for my 200ARC today and ive install winxp (took forever lol) and now win only recgonises that the hdd is 132 gb any ideas why?

Answer 1

The remaining space has been left unpartitioned. The easiest option to "unlocking" the rest of your hard drive space is with a partition manager of your choice. Personally, I use a copy of Partition Magic whose license I've obtained through work. This program does cost money, but I'm sure there are many free programs that can do what it does available through a simple google search.



Hope this helps!



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I see you updated your question. Have you tried using a partition manager yet? Also, I forget which service pack it is, I believe its 1, but it addressed some common hard drive issues. Not similar to yours, but may be related none-the-less. What SP are you using?



Here is a free Partition Manager that is extremely similar to Partition Magic: http://www.download.com/Easeus-Partition-Manager/3000-2248_4-10863346.html



Let me know if this helps.



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SP1 is the one you need. Please run this tool below, restart, and the use the partition manager software to see if you see some "Unallocated space"



http://www.48bitlba.com/enablebiglbatool.htm

Answer 2

Depends on the file system you used. If you had a choice, you should have chosen to install on an NTFS volume rather than a FAT(16) volume. That size limit doesn't occur for NTFS the same way it does for FAT16. I don't recall whether FAT32 has the problem, but I would not be surprised to find that it does.



The problem has to do with the way the system addresses the sectors on the drive and the maximum cluster (allocation unit) size. FAT16 is the worst. FAT32 is better. NTFS is best. If it wouldn't be too much of a pain, try re-installing WinXP from scratch and take the NTFS drive option if it is offered from your vendor's release kit.

Answer 3

Did you install service pack 2 yet? If you did, odds are it is recognizing the whole disk. Go to 'Computer Management' and then 'Disk Management'. Look in the bottom-right pane. It should all be there.



Update: You must install service pack 2 or service pack 3. You can download it from Windows Update or by searching for it. But that's the problem.

Answer 4

Harddirve manufacturers dont use properly ideal meausring of the HDD's. so your arent magiacally loosing area, its jsut the Ps3./pc and so on counts the actualyl bytes on a rigidity, no longer hte stupid numbers HDD useres use. ISPs count number bytes diffrnetly too, subsequently you in no way get finished %. Dont knwo the precise conversion yet 250Gb is abotu 236GB in genuine existence.

Answer 5

well do update you pc and some times the manufacturer did an error once i got a Nvidia PCI Geforce 8400 GS PCI and you know what they gave me? The same version but it plugged into a PCI Express card slot so i had to take it back so i would look up the model number online to see if it is the right one because machines are not mistake proof.

Answer 6

Winxp service pack three should fix the problem (its a free windows update)

Answer 7

try to use the above method 1st, as I know, the windows definitely will not shows 250GB, it will be lower.



you can see below link, it will explain why the HDD did not shows correct amount