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