Western Digital hd and partitioning

[glonner22]

Heya. Here's the deal. In getting a new hard drive from newegg, the first one I ordered was 320GB, 7200RPM, but when I installed Windows XP on it, it showed as 127 GB in My Computer. I sent it back thinking it was the hard drive, and got a replacement. Same thing happened.

Then my brother and I guessed it was that my motherboard couldn't read more than 127GB on a hard drive. So I flashed my bios on my MSI MS-6380E mobo, everything updated fine, and it was still 127GB.

Then we decided to partition the hd into smaller bits that it could read. On a Windows XP CD, I used Partition Magic 7 to set up 3 partitions: 1 primary at 120 GB, and a second primary split into 2 logical 96 GB sections. Everything was partitioned correctly when I left Partition Magic 7.

Then it rebooted and went into Windows setup mode. When it gave me a list of partitions to set it up on, it only gave one partition at 131 GB (what it had done before when it only detected a certain amount of memory on my hd). I shut it off, went back to partition magic 7, and there weren't any partitions to see, only an Error #110 (no explanation of what that error was, either). I tried to format it, and it wouldn't let me. I closed out of there and went back to Windows setup where I deleted the 131 GB partition, setup a 120 GB partition and installed Windows XP on it.

And that's where I'm at right now. It still reads my new hd as 127 GB. Does ANYONE have ANY idea on how I can utilize my entire hd without having to buy a new mobo or processor? Appreciative already.

[leroys1000]

The test results for your board shown using a 160GB drive were ok,
so you board can handle large drives.
Sounds like you are using a windows XP disk that came out before service pack 1.
To make a slipstreamed disk, follow these instructions.
Slipstream service pack 2

[hamstein]

On my computer I thought I only have 37GB but I had 2 hard disks and they both added up to 80GB

[photolady]

leroy's right, your xp doesn't have sp1 or sp2 without either of those service packs, xp only has the capacity of drives up to 137gb. I use Autostreamer to slipstream the two together. It's simple and easier than reading a bunch of directions then getting confused about what you just read. Find autostreamer in the link below:
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/S...streamer.shtml

[hamstein]

I know you can download SP2 you can order it from the site, I did it took a while to get through though and I didn't use it when it got through because I found out after, I already had it :S

[glonner22]

Would it be able to detect the 160 gigs if I simply installed service pack 2 on it currently?

[leroys1000]

No,you might be able to add a new partition,but you really need to do
a clean install with the slipstreamed disk to get the full benefit
of the drive.

[glonner22]

Dah! Ok, I've downloaded the service pack 2 file, but when I go through the command prompt to integrate, I get

"Failed to copy some or all of the files necessary for integrated install.

Please check that:
a) No network or copy errors occured during the integration process
b) The format of the destination directory is correct.
The files to be integrated must reside in an i386 or nec98 directory..."

Twice this error comes up. I tried it once on my mom's computer and everything worked fine. I'm not sure what would be different on my own computer.

[photolady]

What happens when you double click the .exe file of sp2?

[glonner22]

*smacks head* For some reason, my comp needed to be connected to the internet. Once I did that, the integration went through successfully. Now onto burning a bootable CD...

[glonner22]

All right, new update: I've successfully integrated and opened a boot CD project with Nero 7. However, when I go to burn the CD, there's too much memory, and I don't know what isn't needed. Frankly, I don't know how the stuff was stored on the original CD. Is there some way of compressing the files that'll happen during burning? Otherwise, I'm at a loss.

[l337_GuY]

With the Autostreamer program can you intergrate a windows xp pro disc with disc that has sp2 (the disc you can order from microsoft free ) or does it have to be the downloaded version of sp2

[photolady]

I used both. The downloaded version and the cd version. When using autostreamer the only part you need to add from the SP2 is the SP2.exe

[diskjokk]

Can anyone explain how to use Autostreamer? I don't get it. However, i'm having the same problem with a 250GB hard drive. Thanks.

[photolady]

Follow the instructions from the screenshots posted in the link below:

http://www.softpedia.com/progScreens...hot-13918.html