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Hd, only partially recognized.

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se1zure

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I have a WD Caviar, 250 gb 16 mb cache 7200rpm.

ON my new computer, however, when I installed windows, it only recognized it as somewhere around 160 or somthing. I can't figure out how to get the extra space.

Does anyone know why?
 
Do you have SP1/SP2 installed? Is LBA mode on, in the BIOS?
 
i updated to sp2 after install. I'll check the bios for those settings, if I change, will ti mess anything up, do I need to reformat the drive, or will it just start working?
 
se1zure said:
i updated to sp2 after install. I'll check the bios for those settings, if I change, will ti mess anything up, do I need to reformat the drive, or will it just start working?
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Get Gparted, you can expand the rest of the volume.
 
Look in disk manager, and you should see the unallocated space. If you don't have a 3rd party program to expand your partition or repartition your drive, then you'll need to repartition/reformat through windows. I typically partition the drive during windows installation. After XP is installed, I install the service packs, then all the drivers. After which, I format the other partition (rest of the drive).
 
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