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Cannot find other half of my 250Gig Hard drive
Hello all...
I needed more staorage so i went and purchased a 250 Gig HD. I also decided to reinstall windows just to have a clean start. Well any way XP setup declared that it needed to partition the larger drive. so ok i let it do its thing. well now i cannot find it. I currently am only able to see 168 Gig of the 250. I need a non-destructive way or method of finding my other half of the drive. (have already tried disk managment and also ran the set up disk to see if the setup wizard would see it to no avail.) Help!!! |
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Cannot find other half of my 250Gig Hard drive
Are you certain you see 168GB and not 137 GB of the new drive?
JS "Timothy" wrote in message ... Hello all... I needed more staorage so i went and purchased a 250 Gig HD. I also decided to reinstall windows just to have a clean start. Well any way XP setup declared that it needed to partition the larger drive. so ok i let it do its thing. well now i cannot find it. I currently am only able to see 168 Gig of the 250. I need a non-destructive way or method of finding my other half of the drive. (have already tried disk managment and also ran the set up disk to see if the setup wizard would see it to no avail.) Help!!! |
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Cannot find other half of my 250Gig Hard drive
"Timothy" wrote in message ...
Hello all... I needed more staorage so i went and purchased a 250 Gig HD. I also decided to reinstall windows just to have a clean start. Well any way XP setup declared that it needed to partition the larger drive. so ok i let it do its thing. well now i cannot find it. I currently am only able to see 168 Gig of the 250. I need a non-destructive way or method of finding my other half of the drive. (have already tried disk managment and also ran the set up disk to see if the setup wizard would see it to no avail.) Help!!! Do you mean 128? The original XP release does not properly support drives over 128GB. See- http://www.48bitlba.com/winxp.htm http://support.microsoft.com/kb/303013 |
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Cannot find other half of my 250Gig Hard drive
I have Atapi.sys version 5.1.2600.1135
and i also have sp2 and no i only see 168 gig "Timothy" wrote: Hello all... I needed more staorage so i went and purchased a 250 Gig HD. I also decided to reinstall windows just to have a clean start. Well any way XP setup declared that it needed to partition the larger drive. so ok i let it do its thing. well now i cannot find it. I currently am only able to see 168 Gig of the 250. I need a non-destructive way or method of finding my other half of the drive. (have already tried disk managment and also ran the set up disk to see if the setup wizard would see it to no avail.) Help!!! |
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Cannot find other half of my 250Gig Hard drive
Disk Diagnostic Utilities from:
Western Digital's Data LifeGuard Diagnostics http://support.wdc.com/download/?cxml=n&pid=999&swid=3 Seagate's SeaTools http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/sup...loads/seatools Maxtor's (Now owned by Seagate) PowerMax http://www.seagate.com/maxtor/ Fujitsu's Utilities http://www.fujitsu.com/us/services/c...utilities.html Samsung's Disk manager software http://www.samsung.com/Products/Hard...ies/shdiag.htm Hitachi's Drive Fitness Test software http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm#DFT JS "Timothy" wrote in message ... I have Atapi.sys version 5.1.2600.1135 and i also have sp2 and no i only see 168 gig "Timothy" wrote: Hello all... I needed more staorage so i went and purchased a 250 Gig HD. I also decided to reinstall windows just to have a clean start. Well any way XP setup declared that it needed to partition the larger drive. so ok i let it do its thing. well now i cannot find it. I currently am only able to see 168 Gig of the 250. I need a non-destructive way or method of finding my other half of the drive. (have already tried disk managment and also ran the set up disk to see if the setup wizard would see it to no avail.) Help!!! |
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