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500 gig HD shown as 130 gig

Original Message
Name: Brad Carlson
Date: November 27, 2007 at 17:27:29 Pacific
Subject: 500 gig HD shown as 130 gig
OS: WinXP
CPU/Ram: core 2 duo/ 2 gig ram
Model/Manufacturer: Me
Comment:
I installed a new hard drive that is 500 gigs it shows up as 500 gigs in the bios but it only shows as 130 gigs in windows.

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Response Number 1
Name: OtheHill
Date: November 27, 2007 at 17:37:59 Pacific
Subject: 500 gig HD shown as 130 gig
Reply: (edit)
You need to have at least WinXP SP1 in order to use partitions larger than 137/127GB. You can partition the drive and install to a smaller partition and then update the SPs. Or you can slipstream the service packs into your WinXP CD. To do the slipstream look at the link below. nLite is good to add the post SP2 updates if your want to do that.

http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm...


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Response Number 2
Name: anmor
Date: November 27, 2007 at 21:29:09 Pacific
Subject: 500 gig HD shown as 130 gig
Reply: (edit)
Also you can download the WinXP SP2 from:
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/fi...

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Response Number 3
Name: cliffpage
Date: November 28, 2007 at 00:33:15 Pacific
Subject: 500 gig HD shown as 130 gig
Reply: (edit)
also this issue of 48bit LBA:
http://www.48bitlba.com/

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