This is a re-formatt with XP Pro instead of Home on single drive system only. During the reformatt its telling me I can only format 131gigs worth instead of the full 200, but it thinks that is the whole drive. After formatting, Windows still shows the drive as 131gigs and a ScanDisk check shows it to be 131 gigs as well. Does updating Windows to SP1 just update the data shown or does it update the data that can be formatted. When I formatted the drive it showed that it was formatting 131060mb of data...was it really formatting the entire 200 gig drive and just showing it as 131060 or was it formatting 131060? I formatted again and it went down to 127gig's now O_o!!! Would something else like fdisk be the only way to make it formatt the whole drive? Or only a bios update? Or just a Windows update? I guess part of my question is does Windows need to "see" the drive capacity to actually format the entire drive or is it just a bug related to how much its "telling" you it is?

I am no expert, but it seems to me that if you format using the XP CD, that does not have SP1 built in, then XP CD will only see that limit. How to partition and format a hard disk in Windows XP From what I see around here about fdisk is that if you are not careful you will have a limit there too. How to Use the Fdisk Tool and the Format Tool to Partition or Repartition a Hard Disk ------------------- Simplified version of the above Fdisk article: How to Format: Use a 95 or 98 start up disk Boot to A: Fdisk Delete Partition or logical drive Delete primary DOS partition if fat16 or fat32 Delete Non DOS if NTFS Next Create DOS partition Create primary DOS partition Do you wish to use max size?_______Y Reboot to A: format C: You have FAT32 If you want NTFS you can convert later. How to Use Convert.exe to Convert a Partition to the NTFS File System Overview of FAT, HPFS, and NTFS File Systems How to Obtain the Latest Windows XP Service Pack Has a link to order it on CD.