HDD Problem looking for suggestions

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yang88she

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Upon putting together my pc and installing the os I realized that I needed to clear the partition and reinstall. I have a 500gb samsung and the first time around it says I have 400 something gb of free space and now this time around it says I only have 120 ish gb is free space. I have tried installing the os and clearing the partition, disconnect/reconnect the hdd, and now I am out of ideas. Anyone know why it is doing this? Thanks in advance.
 
You are not by chance installing Vista are you? I noticed when installing Vista is always just renames the old windows folder and leaves it, really just to take up extra space.
 
Is your install disc pre-SP1 XP Pro? If so, try installing from a CD with SP2 slipstreamed into it.
 
120~ish --- is it 128 GB ? If so SP2 will fix it as explorer noted. Your BIOS should show the full drive, but early XP releases didn't support large HD (LBA I think) sizes; a SP update will solve it.

tho note -- you will need to create the additional 300~GB as another partition. Unless you have an original XP disc w/SP2 (or slipstreamed), the base 128GB partition will have to be used for WinXP, with the extra space partitioned as an extra storage drive
 
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