Hard Disk Limitation (137GB) 200 GB

[maxell]

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

[Junior_co]

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

[venney]

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

[NXRosco]

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.