Large hard drive

[Morgan]

Well i added a 300 gig drive and windows will not recognize it
It does recognize it in bios. But when i look at it in windows it is 127 gig. I have 3 programs to enable LBA. I see it enabled in the registry. When i run one of the three programs they tell me that i doan need to do anything. I doan want to lose info after i run out of the 127 gig

WHAT AM I GONNA DOOOOOOOOO? :-?

[soybean]

What does doan mean?  Never heard that word before.

[Morgan]

Don't...........Goober

[Calum]

Install SP2, pre-SP2 Windows XP can't recognize HDDs over 137Gb.
That's if it's Windows XP.
If it's before that I'm not sure, I've not used any other OS extensively.

[Morgan]

I have windows xp pro with sp2 installed and all the latest updates downloaded

[GX1_Man]

Is this the only drive in the machine? If not, how are the drives configured?

What is the computer or motherboard make/model?

[downundersteve]

Hi Soybean
I'm sure that people come to this site for assistance not for spelling and grammar lessons. You should not be so harsh with newbs.

As for correct grammar:

What does doan mean?  Never heard that word before.

It should be:

I have never heard of that word before.

Am I being Pedantic, yes! Give newbs a break.

[Morgan]

GX-1.....I have two hard drives in the comp...one is a 300 gig and one is a 80 gig.
The 80 gig is set as a slave. The 300 as master. The 300 shows in windows as 127 gig and the other as 80 gig. The mother board is a P4M800P.

Thank you in advance....

Thank you VERY much Steve......

okay i was looking in disk management and saw drive C had 127 gig and 151 gig was unallocated......is there a way to add that to drive C or will i have to make another drive??

[patio]

Morgan, do you happen to have a disk imaging program in your arsenal ? ?
Reason i ask is the safest way to do this and the least messy would be to make an image of the 127G partition check the archive and burn it to DVD.
Then wipe the 300G and use the HDD manuf. utilities that shipped with the drive to allocate the total space and set it as active.
Then run your image program to restore your original contents to the full HDD.

There are programs that can do this and say they do it well such as partition magic etc. but in my experience i don't trust the results...learned the hard way.

The other option would be to let XP allocate the free space and create another partition which you could now use for storage.

Keep in mind it might not become the D: drive as physical drives take priority over partitions.

So C: would be your existing bootable drive that contains XP

D: would be the WD80 G

And E: would be the 151G remaining on the 300.

Hope this helps.