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aggr1103

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My copy of xp is pretty old, so when I installed my 160gb hard drive it only recognized around 130gb of it. I formatted the partition it did not recognize but I'm wondering is there anyway I can remove the partition and have windows recognize the whole drive rather than one drive partitioned into an approximately 130gb section and an approximate 30gb section.

Basically, I want to be able to see my hard drive in control panel as just one drive and not two. Any way I can do that?

Thanks in advance for the help.
 
I was told it was because my copy of xp was an older copy made prior to sp2 (after a reinstall i download sp2).
 
You can try re-sizing the partition with Gparted, or you might want to make yourself a slipstream SP2 disk and re-install.
 
aggr1103 said:
My copy of xp is pretty old, so when I installed my 160gb hard drive it only recognized around 130gb of it. I formatted the partition it did not recognize but I'm wondering is there anyway I can remove the partition and have windows recognize the whole drive rather than one drive partitioned into an approximately 130gb section and an approximate 30gb section.

Basically, I want to be able to see my hard drive in control panel as just one drive and not two. Any way I can do that?

Thanks in advance for the help.
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You need to slipstream service pack 2 to your windows install disk
 
did new harddrive come with a instaltion cd the update to windows xp may be on it,if you are using it to install.may only yield 149 gigabytes
 
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