Increasing hard drive size 2

[Myst789]

hey guys, i hope you can help me.
I have a 160gb western digital hard drive which i have been using for about a year now. Sine I am running windows xp my hard drive was limited to 127gb. My question is if i update to sp1 or 2 and gain the ability to raise my hard drive space to 160, will i lose any of my files or will windows automatically show the hard drive as 160gb rather then 127gb?

 

[paparazi]

Myst789
General consensus is that regardless of the particular reasons service pack 2 should be applied.
Basically the pros far outweight the cons for applying the service pack.
As with ALL upgrades and/or major software changes backing up important files is prudent but is purely precautionary as in 95% (at least) of cases SP2 will apply without problems.
Hopefully the extra space should become usable as long as there aren't other limitations to your setup ie: that the age of your motherboards bios prevents all the drive being seen, in this case you may need to flash your bios to the latest.
Martin

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[wolluf]

As Martin says, the full 160 (or probably c.150 in windows) GB should be available after installing SP1 or 2 -

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013

- if bios supports it.

But the extra space will not be partitioned - as you could only see c. 127GB originally, that will be size of partition - so you'll need to create a second partition to make space available (or use something like Partition Magic to extend current partition - if you take this route, BACK UP first).

Your current files etc should be unchanged.