250 gig SATA only reads as 127gig in windows, but reads full 250gig in BIOS what do i

[Matty K]

hello, i just bought a new machine and i'm having trouble with my HDD i have a SATA 250 gig and i'm running XP, when i look in my HDD properties it only shows i have a capacity of 127gigs. what can i do to fix this? please help me.

 

[howard_hopkinso]

Hello and welcome to Techspot.

Look HERE. It may answer your question.

Regards Howard :wave: :wave:

 

[lukeyu]

update your windows xp to xp2

 

[Matty K]

I've never heard of XP2 and i recently added the Service Pack 2, but still no luck

 

[Tedster]

read this entire sticky:

https://www.techspot.com/vb/topic36678.html