10GB HD only shows 4GB after installing XP SP2 upgrade

[Dhar2112]

Hello. I just completed an upgrade to XP SP2. I'm using a Samsung
SpintPoint UATA 10GB hard drive as my C: drive and a Maxtor 40GB UATA hard
drive as my D:. This PC is a gaming machine I put together for my kids. I
wanted to the OS to go on the C: drive and the games, etc....to go on the D:
drive. Windows shows the capacity of the Maxtor (D:) drive correctly, but
I'm getting warnings that the C: drive is almost full, even though I should
have approx. 6GB remaining. How do I correct this? When I did the upgrade,
it didn't give me any options as far as hard drives are concerned, so I just
assumed that everything installed correctly.

My motherboard is a Chaintech CT-SK8T800, if that makes a difference.

Thanks for the help!

[Jerry]

Check the BIOS to see if the drive is correctly identified.

"Dhar2112" > wrote in message
...
> Hello. I just completed an upgrade to XP SP2. I'm using a Samsung
> SpintPoint UATA 10GB hard drive as my C: drive and a Maxtor 40GB UATA hard
> drive as my D:. This PC is a gaming machine I put together for my kids.
> I
> wanted to the OS to go on the C: drive and the games, etc....to go on the
> D:
> drive. Windows shows the capacity of the Maxtor (D:) drive correctly, but
> I'm getting warnings that the C: drive is almost full, even though I
> should
> have approx. 6GB remaining. How do I correct this? When I did the
> upgrade,
> it didn't give me any options as far as hard drives are concerned, so I
> just
> assumed that everything installed correctly.
>
> My motherboard is a Chaintech CT-SK8T800, if that makes a difference.
>
> Thanks for the help!

[DUH]

If it only shows 4gb then that's all that is left. A 10gb system drive with
XP is not a good idea, much to small.

"Dhar2112" > wrote in message
...
Hello. I just completed an upgrade to XP SP2. I'm using a Samsung
SpintPoint UATA 10GB hard drive as my C: drive and a Maxtor 40GB UATA hard
drive as my D:. This PC is a gaming machine I put together for my kids. I
wanted to the OS to go on the C: drive and the games, etc....to go on the D:
drive. Windows shows the capacity of the Maxtor (D:) drive correctly, but
I'm getting warnings that the C: drive is almost full, even though I should
have approx. 6GB remaining. How do I correct this? When I did the upgrade,
it didn't give me any options as far as hard drives are concerned, so I just
assumed that everything installed correctly.

My motherboard is a Chaintech CT-SK8T800, if that makes a difference.

Thanks for the help!

[Peter]

Hi,

I would suggest you to use the 40Gig to install XP and games and the 10 Gig
to store data files. a 10 Gig Hdd is too small for XP.

Peter


"DUH" wrote:

> If it only shows 4gb then that's all that is left. A 10gb system drive with
> XP is not a good idea, much to small.
>
> "Dhar2112" > wrote in message
> ...
> Hello. I just completed an upgrade to XP SP2. I'm using a Samsung
> SpintPoint UATA 10GB hard drive as my C: drive and a Maxtor 40GB UATA hard
> drive as my D:. This PC is a gaming machine I put together for my kids. I
> wanted to the OS to go on the C: drive and the games, etc....to go on the D:
> drive. Windows shows the capacity of the Maxtor (D:) drive correctly, but
> I'm getting warnings that the C: drive is almost full, even though I should
> have approx. 6GB remaining. How do I correct this? When I did the upgrade,
> it didn't give me any options as far as hard drives are concerned, so I just
> assumed that everything installed correctly.
>
> My motherboard is a Chaintech CT-SK8T800, if that makes a difference.
>
> Thanks for the help!
>
>
>