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I have a western digital 200 GB. When i boot my pc to install windows xp, the windows setup program recognizes the 200 GB as 137 GB. why do i lose all these GBs? in the past i used the hard drive normally. what has happened now? please help me

Hello Maxell,

Have you checked in your BIOS to see if it is recognizing your HD for what it is? I remember a lont time ago, a large hard drive would automatically be partitioned. I have to guess that it was the BIOS... All the 'lost' GB might just be in a second partition

That's what I would look at first....

I hope this helps and look forward to what the others have to say

Junior

Hello Max

Im not sure why you are loosing alot of gig, but i have a 120 gig hard drive which was in the pc when we baught it, but it only appears to be 111. I know windows takes alot of room but i honestly have no idea.
Juts consider that windows could be using your hard drive space.

Venney

Sounds like you are installing XP pre Service Pack 1. This version of windows has a 137gig HDD limit.
Install SP1 or 2 and everything will be fine.