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Formatting SATA Hard Drive
Name: Cadence Date: June 20, 2006 at 17:28:11 Pacific OS: WinXP Pro CPU/Ram: Pentium D/1GB Product: Sony Vaio
Comment:
I just bought a Sony Vaio desktop pc and I want to reformat with WinXP Pro. When I go through with the winxp format only 131GB of my 250GB hard drive is shown. I know formatting with NTFS takes up room, but does it take up that much room. On my Windows Media Center it is showing 227GB. Is there anything I can do to get more out of my hard drive than 131GB?
Name: Sabertooth Date: June 20, 2006 at 17:48:00 Pacific
Reply:
Your system needs to be 48 Bit LBA capable, if your XP OS isn't at least SP1 updated, you'll need to do that by simply running Windows update and installing the applicable patches (SP2 & co).
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Response Number 2
Name: Cadence Date: June 20, 2006 at 18:45:31 Pacific
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I have SP2 and all of the latest patches, however, it is only showing 127GB from a 250GB hard drive.
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Response Number 3
Name: lukeles Date: June 20, 2006 at 19:22:00 Pacific
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In bios, what is the hard drive size???
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Response Number 4
Name: Cadence Date: June 21, 2006 at 03:27:33 Pacific
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The hard drive in my BIOS is 250GB. I was able to resolve by problem. I ran parition magic and I had 104GB of unallocated hard drive space. I created a parition with that and all is well. Thanks for all of the replies.
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Response Number 5
Name: Sabertooth Date: June 21, 2006 at 10:42:26 Pacific
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You could have accomplished the same result from the built-in 'disk management' console in XP had I fully understood you.
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