missing disk space

MPeng1

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we had to buy a new system at work. none of the business software will work with vista so we wiped out vista and formatted the hard drive and installed XP. the 320 gig capacity drive now only shows 137 gig capacity. any thoughts as to what happened and what do i do about it?thanks!
 

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Sounds like you installed using a pre-SP anything XP disk. If so you basically have one of two choices,

1. Install SP2 or SP3 so that XP can "see" the rest of the drive. Then use the remainder as another partition or use a 3rd party (Partition Magic, etc) program to merge the two if you only want one.

2. Either find a disk with at least SP1 (or is it 1a); or make your own using nlite,

nLite - Deployment Tool for the bootable Unattended Windows installation

and slipstream SP2 or SP3 into it, and then re-install XP.
 

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System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Me
    CPU
    Athlon x2 7750 BE
    Motherboard
    Asus M4A78 Pro
    Memory
    2x2gb Kingston
    Graphics Card(s)
    Sapphire HD 4830
    Sound Card
    X-Fi Xtreme Music
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Acer P221w and Acer 1916w
    Screen Resolution
    1680x1050 and 1440x900
    Hard Drives
    2x80 GB Seagate 7200.10 in RAID0, 500 GB Seagate 7200.12
    PSU
    Antec Earthwatts 500W
    Case
    Antec Sonata III
    Cooling
    AC Freezer 64 Pro and a couple of 120 mm case fans
    Keyboard
    Logitech Wave
    Mouse
    Logitech G5 v2
    Internet Speed
    10000/1000
Hey yawl, i tried option #1 that stormy13 told me about and that did not work. The system still says that the hard drive only has 137 gig capacity. In this forum and others i have read some posts that makes me wounder if i need to do the F6 during XP installation and install a SATA/RAID driver for the motherboard. A number of posts say that the driver loaded for Vista can not be reconized by XP. Prior to doing stormy13's step #1 i got the XP driver package from the maker of the motherboard and that took care of all of the other devices built into the board but i'm not sure if it installed any kind of a SATA/RAID driver. Any ideals and warnings would be great!
 

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