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I just formatted the HD.. Now it's running ok..

I also bought a Western Digital HD, a 200GB one.. It says 200GB on the sticker on the HD.. But I've installed it and it's saying it's only 130GB..

Any ideas?
 
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yeah it might be that your board only sees upto 130G... can usually get a bios flash for most to fix it. I have this problem back in the day... when wouldnt read more than 40G lol....



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or you can do that ^^^^ lol beaten to it ;)



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Shounak said:
I just formatted the HD.. Now it's running ok..

I also bought a Western Digital HD, a 200GB one.. It says 200GB on the sticker on the HD.. But I've installed it and it's saying it's only 130GB..

Any ideas?
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To reaffirm whats already been stated...

As far as I know...you need SP2 for XP to use large capacity disks...I had the same issue with my 200 Gb Disk...soon as I installed SP2 it recognised it...

Also check that your BIOS recognises the disk as 200 Gb...you may need a BIOS upgrade if it doesn't.
 
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sixshooter said:
To reaffirm whats already been stated...

As far as I know...you need SP2 for XP to use large capacity disks...I had the same issue with my 200 Gb Disk...soon as I installed SP2 it recognised it...

Also check that your BIOS recognises the disk as 200 Gb...you may need a BIOS upgrade if it doesn't.
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i have a 250gb and a 160gb both installed on XP SP1 though?
 
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stocky said:
i have a 250gb and a 160gb both installed on XP SP1 though?
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Yeah. That's what you need. Such drives won't work on plain old xp. If you check the link I posted, you'll see that SP1 is the minimum requirement.
 
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stocky said:
i have a 250gb and a 160gb both installed on XP SP1 though?
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agh yes.... my bad ! :hit: my XP was the first iteration with no service packs...
 
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Briliant.. I tried to install SP2, but my version of windows is a bit uhhh "dodgy"..

So it didn't accept the product key..

Is this the price I pay for using a dodgy version of Windows?
 
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yep..... thats why u get the dodgy version with the SP2 bundled in it:p
 
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