Hard Drive Capacity

I just installed a 300 GB hard drive, and it shows up as 128 GB. It also is listed as F: drive instead of C: drive and I installed it the same as the drive I took out. I am running windows XP. Also how would I configure the drives to put my 40 GB drive back and run them both, as I didn't back up all my info and the old drive works. Thanks, Charlie

 

Is this windows XP? What service pack do you have installed?

 

I'm not sure if I have any service pack installed. I did the automatic update from Microsoft, and it down loaded some programs, but I don't know what was in them.

 

Service Pack 2

 

It is Windows XP Service pack 2

 

Right click on "my computer", select manage. Or click start, then right click on "my computer", then select manage.

Now, select Disk Management. Where it says disk 0, is their any unpartiioned space there?

 

Yes it says there is 151.47 GB unallocated

 

it says there is 279.46 GB online (F): 127.99 NTFS healthy (system) next block 151.47 unallocated

 

jsut format the unallocated space and there you go

 

"Solution:

Due to BIOS limitations as well as those unique to Windows®, partitioning and formatting drives larger than 137 Gigabytes without proper driver or controller support will result in data loss when storing data to the drive beyond the 137 GB Barrier.

In order for you system to recognize more than 137 GB you will need to utilize one of the following recommended solutions:

If you have a motherboard that has a Intel chipset (810, 810E, 810E2, 815, 815, 815E, 815EP, 815P, 820, 820E, 830M, 830MP, 830MG, 840, 845, 850, or 860) please visit Intel's web site and download the Intel Application Accelerator. Intel's Application Accelerator supports the full capacity of drives larger than 137 GB.
If you do not have a motherboard that has a Intel chipset then it is recommended that you purchase an Ultra ATA 133 PCI card that supports 48 bit Logical Block Addressing (LBA). You can purchase the Maxtor Ultra ATA 133 PCI Card, which supports drives that are larger than 137 GB, directly from us or your local distributor.
If you do not follow either of the above steps, and you attempt to use a drive that exceeds 137 GB and/or that relies on 48-bit Logical Block Addressing by attempting to "tweak" the system even though your ATA controller, chipset drivers and/or system BIOS do not properly support 48-bit Logical Block Addressing, data loss will occur when storing data to the drive beyond the barrier."

The previous quote was found at:

http://www.dewassoc.com/kbase/hard_drives/hard_drive_size_barriers.htm

 

I down loaded the Intel program and it (the other 151GB)now is recognized in defrag as "new volume" I renamed it Local drive G: and now it is listed when I go to my computer and right click properties. My question is how can I go about using it?

 

just format the new partition using NTFS then you can save files to it just like any other part of your hard drive. You should be able to format it from windows simply by right clicking the new G: drive and select format. Right now your computer recognizes it as a separate partition, so formatting it won't have any effect on data you've stored on the f: drive you already had.
My suggestion would be to use this second half of your drive for your media (movies, music, photos) and other files that you will keep on your computer no matter what. That way if you have to reformat, you can simply format the f: drive which contains your windows partition and it will leave your other files alone.

 

you can also use programs like partition magic to combine both partitions into one volume if you so desire to do such a thing