Hello all.
I recently installed a new 300 gig HD in place of an old 30gig one but in Windows its only showing the capacity of the HD as 120gig
Bios shows it as 300 gig though.Any ideas?
im running XP Pro btw
Hello all.
I recently installed a new 300 gig HD in place of an old 30gig one but in Windows its only showing the capacity of the HD as 120gig
Bios shows it as 300 gig though.Any ideas?
im running XP Pro btw
the drive isnt partitioned as far as im aware although when i installed XP on it for the first time it didnt work so i re-installed over it again which worked-is that the problem?
Your WinXP disc is probably not SP2; you probably installed it after you installed the OS, which is pretty common. If that's the case you have two options at this point:
A) Purchase a copy of Acronis Disk Director to resize your existing windows partition to fill the entire disk.
- Or -
B) Simply create a new 151.47GB partition in diskmgmt and store files on that.
Yea thats right i installed SP1 and SP2 after.
think ill probably just create a new partition.think i could manage that lol.
Cheers for your help,appreciated
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Are you using SP2?
Sorry Thrax,whats SP2?
Please take and post a screenshot of this new window.
none of the image hosting sites are working for me at the moment:rolleyes2
i can see there though that 151.47 gig is "unallocated"
A) Purchase a copy of Acronis Disk Director to resize your existing windows partition to fill the entire disk.
- Or -
B) Simply create a new 151.47GB partition in diskmgmt and store files on that.
think ill probably just create a new partition.think i could manage that lol.
Cheers for your help,appreciated