is there a way i can get past the 137GB barrier after i have installed xp pro? installing service pack 1 supports i have read, does it automatically see it after installing sp 1? if not, is there a way around this without reformatting p.s thanks a lot for all your help guys, nothing i asked went unanswerd, my pc is up and rolling smoothly, and i owe much of it to everybody on this forum. thanks again
Yes, if you install SP1 (Or better yet, service pack 2), you hard disk will be detected it's true size. Then if you go to Start>>Control Panel>>Administrator Controls (Classic View)>>Disk Management, and then you can format the rest of the disk space to make it useable!
Waffle is absolutely correct :good: However your hard drive manufacturer should have a "Big Drive Enabler" or "Large Drive Enabler" in the downloads section.
in disk managment, the c: part says, 127.99GB NTFS Healthy (system) the other part says, 21.06 GB Unallocated do i right click it then hit partition? dosent say format, it gives me a choice for either creat primary partition, or extended partition. How do i get it to be one whole volume for C: rather than a seperate partition?
If you don't want to reformat first, you will need third party software, such as Power Quest Partition Magic. Otherwise, just format it as a seperate partition. But, on the bright side, since XP is actually NT, you don't have to assign that partition a drive letter. You can mount it to a folder instead... i.e. C:/Temp or something.
If you want to have more than 4 primary drives, you need to create an extended partition. As there is only 20gigs left, it probably isn't worth it. Therefore, just make a new partition - you are given the chance to format during the creation process.
