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Ata 2000JB only 128gb

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Eocene

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Well.. my 200gb WD only shows up as 128 gigs. I have sp1 and sp 2 and I was wondering if anyone knew how to fix my problem. The mobo reads the ata hd as 186 gigs and I do have the driver disks but I dont think they will help.

One has the ULTRA.cat file and I have no idea what that is for... the other disket is just a lifeguard set of tools


Thanks
 
Thanks I'll try that but Like I said.. I could not install software within the floppies

NVM i see what I need to do now.. but does anyone know if this will mess up my data on my other drive hooked up to ata.
 
Did you install Windows XP (a pre-SP1 version) before you install Service Pack 1? If so, Windows Setup will format only the first 128GB of your HD. The full 185GB of that drive cannot be formatted as a single volume under a pre-SP1 version of Windows XP. Therefore, after you install Service Pack 1 or Service Pack 2 (you need to install one or the other, you don't need both since SP2 includes SP1 bug fixes), you must go into Start > Control Panel > Performance and Maintenance > Administrative Tools, then double-click Computer Mamagement. Next, click Disk Management. You will see that there will be unallocated space on your 185GB disk. Right-click on that unallocated space, then proceed to create a new partition and formatting. That's it! The full 185GB capacity of your "200GB" hard disk can now be accessed, even though you now have two different drive letters for the same drive - a 128GB "C:" partition and (assuming that you have a separate data hard drive and one optical drive) a 57GB "F:" partition (if you have two optical drives and a data hard drive, that 57GB secondary partition will be labeled "G:").

If you want Windows XP Setup to format the entire 185GB as a single volume, you must obtain a legitimate copy of Windows XP that already has Service Pack 1 or later slipstreamed onto the setup CD-ROM. Fortunately, the retail-boxed copies of Windows XP sold in stores today already have SP2 slipstreamed onto the CD-ROM at Microsoft's mastering facilities (and will say so on the box).
 
hmm I'll try the second methor suggested but it might be an ATA issue.


I tried to use the life guard tools using the CMD and it basically didnt work.. maybe I just have a bad floppy or something.
 
I tried both mothods, neither works.

The data life guard tools simply "Test" the drive.. nothing was done there.. (btw I had to dl the windows eversion online)

The other method doesnt seem to work either


I cant get over the "127gb" barrier.

For some reason they ultra ata drive is seen as: "Intel(R) 82801eb ultra ata " when it should be a Promise Ultra100Tx2... according to everything I've researched (this came in a package with the hd)
 
Well, did you connect your drive to the motherboard's controller? Or did you connect your drive to the Promise card?

If you connected your drive to the Promise controller, most likely you did not have the card's drivers installed correctly or at all on your main system drive. Look under "SCSI Controllers" on your Device Manager. You will see a device there, which may have an exclamation mark next to it. If there is, you either didn't have the drivers installed for the card, or you have a resource conflict with something else. (Remember, your Promise card is not treated as an IDE/ATAPI controller under Windows - but instead, it's treated as a SCSI controller.)

Another possibility (however remote, since the card came with your 200GB drive) is that the card's BIOS may have been outdated.
 
I did, but it shows up as Intel(R) card not promise, like i said. This prevents me from using the drivers to fix the 127 limit problem. My other hd is working just fine on the same connection.
 
E4g1e,

I just wanted to say thanks, because I had totally forgotten the Pre-sp1 limit, and I was installing a new 200gb SATA drive and could not for the life of me figure out where 72 GB's went. After I quick search I found this thread

I got it all fixed up thanks to your info.

T
 
Kahnvex,

If you have an old copy of XP like I do (pre SP1) then you should consider "Slipstreaming" SP2 into it and creating a new XP install disc with SP2 integrated.

There are many ways to do this, but I prefer programs that automate it, like nLite.

I used the XP SP2 Slipstreamed disc I made to reinstall Windows when I bought my new 300GB Maxtor. It detected the full capacity of the drive and didn't require any extra work. Plus, installing XP with SP2 integrated is a lot faster and cleaner than going back afterwards and updating everything manually.

Give it a shot, it's easy to do, and may help you in the future even if you don't need to reinstall right away.
 
E4g1e said:
Did you install Windows XP (a pre-SP1 version) before you install Service Pack 1? If so, Windows Setup will format only the first 128GB of your HD. The full 185GB of that drive cannot be formatted as a single volume under a pre-SP1 version of Windows XP. Therefore, after you install Service Pack 1 or Service Pack 2 (you need to install one or the other, you don't need both since SP2 includes SP1 bug fixes), you must go into Start > Control Panel > Performance and Maintenance > Administrative Tools, then double-click Computer Mamagement. Next, click Disk Management. You will see that there will be unallocated space on your 185GB disk. Right-click on that unallocated space, then proceed to create a new partition and formatting. That's it! The full 185GB capacity of your "200GB" hard disk can now be accessed, even though you now have two different drive letters for the same drive - a 128GB "C:" partition and (assuming that you have a separate data hard drive and one optical drive) a 57GB "F:" partition (if you have two optical drives and a data hard drive, that 57GB secondary partition will be labeled "G:").

If you want Windows XP Setup to format the entire 185GB as a single volume, you must obtain a legitimate copy of Windows XP that already has Service Pack 1 or later slipstreamed onto the setup CD-ROM. Fortunately, the retail-boxed copies of Windows XP sold in stores today already have SP2 slipstreamed onto the CD-ROM at Microsoft's mastering facilities (and will say so on the box).
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This works.
 
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