Can anyone help with this. The drive I bought was 160Gb sata. Three days after installing and putting about 30gigs of games & software back on, I have just noticed its only showing as a 137Gb drive. Went to my M/B's website (asrock) and found this in the FAQ. quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Question:My hard drive is 160 GB, when I install Windows 2000 or Windows XP, I can only see 137 GB. Answer:If you would like to use whole 160 GB as only one partition while installing the Windows OS, please make sure that your OS is Windows 2000 service pack 4 included or Windows XP service pack 1 included. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The version of XP I installed from is old and dont come with SP1 on it. I have downed and installed SP2 since the re-install. Is there any way I can get my pc to see the full size of the drive again without doing a re-install, or am I screwed and stuck with 137Gb until I reformat it??? Someone on another forum suggeste dplaying with partition magic to do this, but I am not sure exactly how??? Thanks.
Its not seeing the extra few gigs though.. Thats my prob.. how do I get xp to see that extra bit of drive??
Sorted now.. found this page http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/faq/137_winxp.html and had good info on it and a link to a file too which turned something on and the extra space the showed up in partition magic.. cheers!
YEs i am having the same problem..SO what do i have to do ...do i need to install the first service pack then what to i do with partitition magic ?
install at least sp1 & read MrBarlow's last post with a link to seagate as same for all manufacturers of hd's.
Can someone plz help me...i cant see my extra gigs..i can only see 137 and i think i should be seeing 250...i installed that program "partition magic and the other one and followed those steps but they dont see to work
