HD Question

I just bought a new 250 GB HD and installed windows home edition onto the computer. I noticed that when I made the partition that only 130 GB抯 of the drive was noticed. Now that I have windows installed on it, is there any way I can get the full size of the drive to be available?

Partition magic? but you have to pay for it :/

This was all brought on from my regular OS HD erroring the other day and I have not been able to fix it. I just went the easy way out and bought a new drive and did a fresh install. I’m thinking about reformatting that old OS drive and then using this one as a back up. Will I be able to get the full 250 gb’s back if I do a format on it?

You have to have sp2 or later becuase if you are using sp1 it only knows like 120gig thats part of the problem if you are using that...

Ok here is my situation.



Originally my computer was set up with an 80 gb OS HD and a 250 gb back up HD. The 80 gb has a pretty serious windows error and will probably need to be reformatted, unless I can fix it in safe mode. I’ve inserted the drive in an external enclosure and have recovered what I need off of the drive. Well a few days before I bought another 250 gb hd for the purpose of backing up my systems. I used this drive as the new OS drive, but like I stated before the drive only shows up with 130 gb’s available.



My new plan of attack is to reformat the 80 gb, with a fresh install of XP.

I want to totally reformat the 250 gb hd, which is showing up as 130 gbs. If I reformat this drive, will I recover the full space of the disk?



I’m aware that I need SP2, but if I updated to service pack 2, will this take care of my 130 gb problem or will it stay as that partitioned amount?

Download SP2
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en
And slipstream it to your XP cd

As StrangleHold says, your best plan is to slipstream SP2 and format the drive during the install, if you format the drive to 250GB and install an older version of XP that lacks 48bit LBA support I don't know what it will do.

you can recover the missing space buy installing service pack 2 then right clicking my computer then left clicking manage the disk management and you will see the extra space on the hdd just right click it and format it ,then it will show under my computer as a partition you can use.

Thanks for all your help! I got it all figured out!