*FIXED* - Seagate 200GB SATA drive shows 65GB used, but ONLY XP Home/Updates installed?

[Trey22]

Have this drive in a Shuttle SN95G5, and have only 1 partition (might go back and fix that).

Installed XP Home, plus all updates, and when I checked the drive properties, it said 65GB used, 122GB free.

I did install the LBA registry change from Seagates site to enable sensing of larger than 137GB drives.

 

[Gothgar]

Originally posted by: Trey22
Have this drive in a Shuttle SN95G5, and have only 1 partition (might go back and fix that).

Installed XP Home, plus all updates, and when I checked the drive properties, it said 65GB used, 122GB free.

I did install the LBA registry change from Seagates site to enable sensing of larger than 137GB drives.

hahaha

spyware > you

 

[Trey22]

Originally posted by: Gothgar

Originally posted by: Trey22
Have this drive in a Shuttle SN95G5, and have only 1 partition (might go back and fix that).

Installed XP Home, plus all updates, and when I checked the drive properties, it said 65GB used, 122GB free.

I did install the LBA registry change from Seagates site to enable sensing of larger than 137GB drives.

hahaha

spyware > you

We'll see when I get home.

 

[Corsairpro]

installed XP home AFTER formatting the drive? Is it an OEM XP Home or is it a dell / hp / gateway / etc version?

 

[Trey22]

OEM version of XP Home that I installed after formatting.

 

[dullard]

Lets do the math. 137 GB (Base 10 gigabyte) is equivalent to 127.5 GiB (base 2 gigibyte). So Windows will report 137 GB as 127.5 GiB. Windows XP with updates should be a couple of GiB. Thus I'm not surprized if it reports 122 GiB.

Something must be wrong and you set up a 137 GB partition.

 

[Texun]

Originally posted by: Trey22
Have this drive in a Shuttle SN95G5, and have only 1 partition (might go back and fix that).
Installed XP Home, plus all updates, and when I checked the drive properties, it said 65GB used, 122GB free.
I did install the LBA registry change from Seagates site to enable sensing of larger than 137GB drives.

You know Microsoft has jumped the shark when updates outweigh the OS.



You have all the updates so I guess that would mean SP2 for XP. Sounds like a partitioning problem. What does the Disk Management window show? Control Panel>Admin Tools> Computer Management> Disk Management

 

[Trey22]

Originally posted by: dullard
Lets do the math. 137 GB (Base 10 gigabyte) is equivalent to 127.5 GiB (base 2 gigibyte). So Windows will report 137 GB as 127.5 GiB. Windows XP with updates should be a couple of GiB. Thus I'm not surprized if it reports 122 GiB.

Something must be wrong and you set up a 137 GB partition.

Until I updated/patched XP, it wouldn't see the entire drive. First time using a drive over 137GB .

All is well now, thanks all.