200gig HD formated at 131?

[omgwtfbbq]

is this normal for the actual space to be so much less than the rated size..?

I know to expect some space loss but with my 80gig laptop i am only losing 7gig out of 80...we are talking 35% with this new HD.

is there any way for me to fix this or is it just normal?

thanks

oh yeah and is there any way that this could slow the hard drive down?

on yeah it is formatted NTFS if that matters

 

[Raven]

sounds to me your os dont support big harddrives for some reason.

xp with sp2 ?

take a look at this, the program works for none maxtor harddrives too.

http://www.maxtor.com/portal/site/M...tware Downloads/ATA Hard Drives&downloadID=11

 

[omgwtfbbq]

yeah just windows XP SP2

 

[Toxteth O'Grady]

See here.

Since you're SP2, I guess you've got an old bios. Check your mobo support for an update.



TOG

 

[Rastalovich]

Open up your favorite windows explorer, right click on MyComputer and select Manage, goto Storage->DiskManagement.

This will bring up a pictorial of all the connected drives and how they`re partitioned.

Just check to see if your new drive is in the list, and that the ~60g that is missing isn`t greyed out as inactive or not healthy.

Laptop HD are notoriously preformated into 2 parts, one is meant for the user to mess about with and the other for system stuffs, backups and oem features. EDIT: cept you don`t say the 200g is for the latop, so that may not be the case - (note to self, read the posts 2ce)

Is possible.

 

[youpla]

XP installation does not seem to recognize HD partition bigger than 130Gb.

I had exactly the same problem on 2 of my computers and making a fresh install of XP.

The BIOS recognized my HD correctly with 250Gb, but when I installed XP, it only recognized and formatted a partition of 130Gb. It is not a big issue though as you can easily get back the missing Gbs afterward. I myself used Partition Magic and recovered the unallocated 110Gb in a breeze!

 

[omgwtfbbq]

ahh ok thankyou, i was worried my hard drive was damaged or something when i got it.

 

[Dav0s]

i think Rastolovich is most probably right, the space is probably just unallocated

 

[Rastalovich]

XP installation does not seem to recognize HD partition bigger than 130Gb.

I had exactly the same problem on 2 of my computers and making a fresh install of XP.

The BIOS recognized my HD correctly with 250Gb, but when I installed XP, it only recognized and formatted a partition of 130Gb. It is not a big issue though as you can easily get back the missing Gbs afterward. I myself used Partition Magic and recovered the unallocated 110Gb in a breeze!

U shouldn`t have to put up with that m8, I got handfuls of 200g+ drives here - in the main I partition them on purpose, but I chucked in 1 raw to move some stuffz about and it formated to 189g from 200g, which tbh I semi expected.

 

[mr_fishbulb]

XP installation does not seem to recognize HD partition bigger than 130Gb.

I had exactly the same problem on 2 of my computers and making a fresh install of XP.

The BIOS recognized my HD correctly with 250Gb, but when I installed XP, it only recognized and formatted a partition of 130Gb. It is not a big issue though as you can easily get back the missing Gbs afterward. I myself used Partition Magic and recovered the unallocated 110Gb in a breeze!

If you can get hold of a SP2 installation disk or slipstream your existing disk to SP2 then you can install on over 137Gig

 

[noveltylamp]

Not positive as i've never had this trouble, but a slipstreamed XP disc may allow you to install over 137gb, see http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_sp2_slipstream.asp

 

[nawfal]

i had the same problem. i couldnt work it out for the life of me.

i just slip streamed sp2 with xp pro and it worked like a charm