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500 gig HD shown as 130 gig
Name: Brad Carlson Date: November 27, 2007 at 17:27:29 Pacific OS: WinXP CPU/Ram: core 2 duo/ 2 gig ram Product: 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.
Name: OtheHill Date: November 27, 2007 at 17:37:59 Pacific
Reply:
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.
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