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Please help, trying to use a 250 gb hard drive with XP! - X-AtreYu-X - 12-10-2005

ive read that you cannot use a 250 gb hard drive on the same drive with windows xp, it said u have to divide it like c drive 125 gb and d drive 125 gb, i was wondering if there was anyway for me to just overcome this and have my C: drive with 250 not have to divide it, can anyone please help?Sad thanks in advance!Big Grin

Please help, trying to use a 250 gb hard drive with XP! - 5|*42 - 12-10-2005

Actually, it's 137GB, and it was overcome in SP1A, so if all 250 gigs are not seen at once just run windows update and you'll be fine.

Please help, trying to use a 250 gb hard drive with XP! - Tool - 12-11-2005

****... That's the problem I was having when I tried doing mine. l0l... I ended up just buying a 160.

Please help, trying to use a 250 gb hard drive with XP! - X-AtreYu-X - 12-11-2005

so would i just install windows on it normaly and only put 137 gbs on drive c and leave the rest just un partitioned then when windows is fully installed run windows update and it will be fixed?

that and if thats true i have a problem, i dont have a valid cd key for xp, any ideas on what todo then?

Please help, trying to use a 250 gb hard drive with XP! - zerochris1985 - 12-11-2005

does you rpirated key still work?

if so just reinstall windows look on the web for the genuine crack and there ya go thats what i did Smile

Please help, trying to use a 250 gb hard drive with XP! - 5|*42 - 12-11-2005

Installing SP2 should allow windows to recognize any size hard drive. If it still doesn't work, you may need to download a partition program, and manually extend the partition from 137GB to however big the drive is.

Please help, trying to use a 250 gb hard drive with XP! - Grave - 12-11-2005

My friend had the same problem.. Also does this problem occur with 300gb hd?

Please help, trying to use a 250 gb hard drive with XP! - X-AtreYu-X - 12-11-2005

well... lets just say i am using a friends copy of windows xp and looked up a cd key on google... lol

Please help, trying to use a 250 gb hard drive with XP! - 5|*42 - 12-11-2005

Grave Wrote:My friend had the same problem.. Also does this problem occur with 300gb hd?
Anything over 137GB will only be recognized as 137GBs, if you install with an old enough version of XP.

Please help, trying to use a 250 gb hard drive with XP! - X-AtreYu-X - 12-11-2005

so aslong as u have sp2 it will recognize it as 250??

Please help, trying to use a 250 gb hard drive with XP! - L4E - 12-11-2005

i think this isnt a windows problem, but a NTFS problem.
As we all know, well except ignorant fools, a hard drive formatted as FAT can only have about 2gbs of space (somewhere around that). I am not sure, but the NTFS formatted hardrive may have such a limit as well, perhaps the limit is 137gb? Either way, dividing ur harddrive into two partitions should not be a problem, it may even be a good thing. I seriously doubt u have any single program that will require more than 137gb of space for its installation. I mean, u could decide to make one hardrive for all work related things (studys as well) and the other for all entertainment related things. Well the important thing is, u like to pirate stuff and 250gb divided into two partitions will surely meet ur pirating needs =)

Please help, trying to use a 250 gb hard drive with XP! - 5|*42 - 12-11-2005

But people (inlcuding myself) have large partitions w/ NTFS. I installed a version of XP that has SP1A, and all 200 gigs were recognized no problem. Although I am running a SATA drive, but using the same disk I installed XP on a 160 IDE drive for my friend, and again all got recognized right away.

Please help, trying to use a 250 gb hard drive with XP! - Tool - 12-11-2005

Yeah, I could partition the 160 I have on this fine but back when I was trying my 250 it would not work. And this was with SP1A disc.

Please help, trying to use a 250 gb hard drive with XP! - 5|*42 - 12-11-2005

That's weird. Where both hard drives the same type, or were they different (like SATA, IDE, ect)?

Please help, trying to use a 250 gb hard drive with XP! - Tool - 12-11-2005

IDE. Both were going to be NTFS formatted. With the 250 it would partition but then it would copy the XP files to the hard drive but upon reboot it wouldn't go the GUI part of XP.

Please help, trying to use a 250 gb hard drive with XP! - 5|*42 - 12-12-2005

I doubt you did this, but I'll ask it anyways: You did let the comp boot from the HDD after it rebooting from copying the installation files on to the HDD, right? ie, you didn't boot into the installation CD again?

Please help, trying to use a 250 gb hard drive with XP! - Tool - 12-12-2005

I sure did. But I got it all figured out now so I don't give a shit.

Please help, trying to use a 250 gb hard drive with XP! - 5|*42 - 12-12-2005

Ha, just out of curiosity, how did you get it to work?

Please help, trying to use a 250 gb hard drive with XP! - Tool - 12-12-2005

Well I called tech support for XP and my motherboard manufacturer because I thought it was a problem with one of those because my hard drive had been a slave drive on my computer before. After countless failures there I went to Target with my dad and bought a Western Digi 160 GB for 90 bucks (which is now 40 bucks at Best Buy... Damn it...) and it worked just fine.

Please help, trying to use a 250 gb hard drive with XP! - X-AtreYu-X - 12-13-2005

hey u know when you first load up windows xp like after formatting your hard drive, you use those 5 or 6 windows xp floppy disks, anyone know where to download those??