Hard Drive issues...

[whodo]

Hi, I've posted before because when I bought the parts for my system, my SATA HD was DOA and my motherboard's DIMM slots 3 & 4 weren't working..

Anyways, I sent them both back and I receieved them yesterday. Well I thought everything was fine but my freakin HD is only showing 127 gig! Its supposed to be 250! I've heard of losing gigs with number conversion, but 50% of the advertised storage is ridiculous so I know something is wrong. I just don't know what.

My OS (Win XP Pro) is detecting the right model number so what else could it be?

the HD is a HITACHI Deskstar 7K250 HDS722525VLSA80 250GB

 

[airfoil]

Install XP Service Pack2 and update your mobo BIOS if possible,

 

[bowserjs]

Originally posted by: airfoil
Install XP Service Pack2 and update your mobo BIOS if possible,

 

[whodo]

I REALLY don't want to do SP2 if i don't have to... I mean I have SP1 and all the updates downloaded, but I've read things about SP2 and system lockups that makes me really iffy about it. Oh, and my motherboard BIOS is flashed to the most recent version as well. Anywho, I would think that it would show the correct capacity without SP2 wouldn't it?

 

[Budman]

Link to solve your problem.

 

[Actaeon]

You need at least Service Pack1 slipstreamed into the OS install. Oh, and Service Pack2 is fine.

EDIT: Oh, sorry, I forgot to mention.

If you don't have SP1 slipstreamed, you can install it on the regular install and still get the harddrive space. However, you'll never get it on one partition. You would have that single 127gb partition, then the other partition is whatever that wasn't detected before. With the slipstreamed version, you can have it all on 1 partition.

If you planned on having more than 1 partition anyway, then its not that big of a deal, but to some people it might matter. I have a 160gb hard drive, and I find it to be pointless to have one 127gb partition, then another 25~ for another, so 1 partition is perfect for me.

 

[Ntar]

Originally posted by: Budman
Link to solve your problem.

:thumbsup:

 

[whodo]

OK, so I ran the Maxtor program but I got nothing anyways. I'm led to believe that although it can address those other 125 gigs, its still unformatted and unaccessible, correct?

If that is so, then I need a way to get to them and format it! I wouldn't mind having a separate partition on it..

If that is not the case, then I'm not sure what to do?!

EDIT: erg, I ran that Maxtor program again and according to it, I have the LBA 48-bit logical drive thingy enabled. Dunno if this helps to know.

 

[imported_Kensai]

You don't have 48 bit logistical drive thingy.

 

[dodgybob]

Try something like partition magic, you can resize the partition to fill the whole drive with that.

 

[whodo]

I have an old version of Partition Magic (6.0 SE) and when I run it in XP it says I have to do it using a RESCUE diskette. OK, so I do that and when I go to my drive it says theres an error "Parition error 123" or something like that. I tried to format it from there but it wouldn't do it. So I'm not sure what to do.

 

[Budman]

pq magic 6 doesnt support NTFS I think. you'll need a more recent version.

 

[dodgybob]

I think you need version 7 upwards for xp support although i may be wrong. I think there is a trial version of 8 about and don't know whether you could use that to do the job before deciding whether to buy the program.

Alternatively try searching to find out how to slipstream a winxp cd so that it has sp2 included, that should allow you to install using all of the drive straight off. I think it has to be sp2 as sp1 doesn't entirely cure the problem. I find that sp2 works fine with a bit of tweaking as long as you do it on a fresh install.

 

[whodo]

Originally posted by: dodgybob
I think you need version 7 upwards for xp support although i may be wrong. I think there is a trial version of 8 about and don't know whether you could use that to do the job before deciding whether to buy the program.

Alternatively try searching to find out how to slipstream a winxp cd so that it has sp2 included, that should allow you to install using all of the drive straight off. I think it has to be sp2 as sp1 doesn't entirely cure the problem. I find that sp2 works fine with a bit of tweaking as long as you do it on a fresh install.

Thanks, I just gave up and decided to slipstream a WinXP CD with SP2. grrrr... I really didn't want to install SP2 yet because of things I've read but I suppose it will be OK. Thanks for the help guys, I just wish this was simpler!

 

[Zugzwang152]

Originally posted by: whodo

Originally posted by: dodgybob
I think you need version 7 upwards for xp support although i may be wrong. I think there is a trial version of 8 about and don't know whether you could use that to do the job before deciding whether to buy the program.

Alternatively try searching to find out how to slipstream a winxp cd so that it has sp2 included, that should allow you to install using all of the drive straight off. I think it has to be sp2 as sp1 doesn't entirely cure the problem. I find that sp2 works fine with a bit of tweaking as long as you do it on a fresh install.

Thanks, I just gave up and decided to slipstream a WinXP CD with SP2. grrrr... I really didn't want to install SP2 yet because of things I've read but I suppose it will be OK. Thanks for the help guys, I just wish this was simpler!

:roll:

 

[winterlude]

Go to start=>control panel => computer Management
Look at the storage tab in the Left columns and you?ll see ?disk management?
Click on it and you?ll see your drives, partitions etc.
If necessary, you can reformat from here within windows.

 

[Zucarita9000]

Originally posted by: whodo
I REALLY don't want to do SP2 if i don't have to... I mean I have SP1 and all the updates downloaded, but I've read things about SP2 and system lockups that makes me really iffy about it. Oh, and my motherboard BIOS is flashed to the most recent version as well. Anywho, I would think that it would show the correct capacity without SP2 wouldn't it?

There's nothing wrong with SP2.

 

[dguy6789]

SP2 had a few minor problems with a very small minority of people when it first came out. Most of those problems have been resolved, and SP2 is a very solid update to windows despite what some MS haters may say.