New xp home instal only sees 127 of my 250 GB HD

I posted this on the AMD forums, but I am looking for all the help I can get;

I installed a seagate 250 GB sata drive on a new setup, and somehow the partition for windows was only made to 127 GB.

When I installed windows XP Home onto my new ASUS A8N SLI Prem with an AMD 64 4000 CPU, I do not recall how I set up, if any, partitions. I didnt want any and I either thought or assumed that the whole disc would be formatted . I did not want to partition anything.

After XP was installed I noticed that only 127 gb of the 250 was available/formatted. WIndows saw it was a 250 GB HD, but only 127 was available. So I did what any newbie assembler would do and reformatted/reinstalled windows and paid more attention. Well, I was unable to get it to recognize/reformat anything more than 127 GB.

I have the original XP disc, SP1a, and I have installed SP2 and all updates. I checked the disk in BIOS and it sees it as a 250 GB drive.

What can I do to get windows to recognize 250 GB and instead of 127?

 

You will also get better results, if you slipstream SP2 into your XP installation, instead of installing it afterwards. "Gold" XP (original) will not recognize larger than 137gig partitions, or drives.

 

I just executed a microsoft file, and now im getting somewhere. Under disc management, the whole drive now appears; 127 GB is "Healthy" (system), and the rest of the drive ( 104 GB) is "unallocated". How do I get the unaaloctaed part to be part of the 127 healthy part. I want it all "healthy and 231 GB.

 

Well, you could pay a nasty one time fee of $60 or more for Partition Magic and merge the partitions...or, you could use an XP SP2 CD and reinstall. You can merge the partitions in Setup by deleting the first one.

 

So instad of doing a complete reinstall with the XP CD, use my XP SP2 CD?

 

Yes.

 

I finally figured it out;

I have 2 systems, therfore 2 XP Cds. One is SP1a, the other is simply version 2002. I used the wrong CD. I reinstalled windows with the right CD, and during set up it saw the 127 GB partition and the rest of the drive as unpartitioned. I deleted the partition, and ran the install on the complete disk.

I now have a 230 something hard drive on a smokin system.

Thanks everyone for all the help.