So I've recently installed a new hard drive as my primary. It's a 250Gb Hard drive, but it only shows up as a 130gb hard drive. Can anyone help me please? :shaggy:
Tell us your pc specifications, as it could be that your hdd isn't supported, in mean time, you should download partition magic, it might be possible that the other space isn't partitioned yet..
I was just about to say the same thing.. Check to make sure all space is partitioned and get back to us
Well I just found out that you are not able to merge the partitions together to make it the max size even tough its one hard drive. only a few programs allow it and they aren't free ware. I can't believe my OS: Xp can't do this ---- Now I have a 3 separate partitions 2 from the my 250gb hard drive how lame :censored: :censored: :censored:
Partitions are actually a good thing, I have 3 HDD and have them sectioned into: Windows Games Misc Programs Media Documents Downloads
Well it's not really all that bad.. Could even help you organize your files maybe? Merged Post: Windows is able to grab game files from another partition? I've always installed windows and games on the same partition to be safe.
This really shouldnt be a problem anymore. If I recall correctly, this is due to a windows "bug" where the OS has trouble with a very large drive. Or something like that, might have been the mobo. (It happaned to me a while back). Have you installed all the latest windows updates?
Windows XP originally did not support harddrives larger than 136GB XP with SP2 fixes that. in short it's because of a Microsoft short sight. back in the days thae largest harddrives were only 80GB how were they supposed to know that it would only take a month or two after they released XP for this to be an issue. The answer is simple, they should have known...
Does sp2 fix that as in when you finish installing sp2 my hard drive should say 250gb in one partition instead of 130gb because that didn't work for me. Unless it means having 2 partitions thats what I have at the moment. A 130gb partition and a 127gb partition from the same hard drive I can't merge them or anything with computer management in the controll panel
just install and upgrade to XP sp2 then use a program liek partition magic to resize the partitions to a a single partition. I personally advise keeping 3+ partitions though. One with your day to day windows One for overclocking tests and whatever tweeking porn etc. you want, this can also be used as a backup partition if necessary one for general storage. All of mydocuments etc, should be rerouted to this partition atleast that's what I do... if I don't dedicated a few other partitions to linux etc. partitions are great. Makes future reinstalls that much mroe simple, no more backing data up or Redownloading programs, just reinstall and the stuff is still on the harddrive.
Yep, but if you still want to merge them, reply to my PM and I'll help you further. I personally use partitions alot to, one for my games, 2 for OS,(xp and vista) one for appz, one for personal stuff , etc.
