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250GB HD showing half full after clean XP install

Discussion in 'Storage and Networking' started by ukjester, Feb 8, 2007.

  1. ukjester Newcomer, in training

    Hi folks,

    I recently bought a new Hitachi 250GB SATA hard drive and created one primary partition of full size using Partition Magic on a boot disk. I then installed windows xp on it (no service packs). Straight after install I noticed it showed as a 232GB drive (fair enough) but also said around 113GB of space had been used.

    I have now installed some more applications and the total file size of everything on the drive totals 24.1GB. My C drive shows 134GB used with 98.3GB free.

    I guess it's something to do with partitioning larger HD's but I'm new to all that so any help would be greatly appreciated.

    Thanks.
    UK Jester
    ukjester, Feb 8, 2007
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  2. raybay TechSpot Evangelist Posts: 10,720   +6

    You need to download the latest BIOS and chipset from the manufacturer of the computer or the manufacturer of the motherboard.
    raybay, Feb 8, 2007
    #2

  3. Samstoned TechSpot Paladin Posts: 2,582

    you may need service pak 2 for that size drive
    do search here for sticky on XP large drive fix
    Samstoned, Feb 8, 2007
    #3

  4. Rick TechSpot Staff Posts: 6,250   +38

    You need SP2.
    Rick, Feb 8, 2007
    #4

  5. ukjester Newcomer, in training

    It seems that after Partition manager had correctly formatted my hard drive to the full size, I foolishly let Windows installation re-format it which caused the problem. Thanks for the advice anyway :)
    ukjester, Feb 9, 2007
    #5

  6. Tedster Techspot old timer..... Posts: 10,047   +11

    see the accessing large hard drives in the guides forum
    Tedster, Feb 9, 2007
    #6
     
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