New HDD not recognised properly in windows

[LordGarsdale]

Hi folks
I have just installed a newly purchased 500Gb hard disk and installed Windows XP Pro (legit) which reported success. When I check the BIOS, it reports 500Gb but using properties of C: or Partition Magic, the partition shows as only 130Gb and I can't resize C: or do anything with it. The other anomaly is that the 'lost' 350GB appears to has been formatted but no drive letter has been assigned.
Has anyone else come across this problem ?
Thx John

 

[Freestone]

XP must be at leaast at Service Pack 1 level in order for it to use drives larger than 137.4 GB. See

http://www.48bitlba.com/winxp.htm

 

[wahnula]

You can slipstream SP2 into your OS install:

http://www.nliteos.com/

Tony

Users helping Users...

 

[LordGarsdale]

But the CD says that it Service Pack 2. Is MS bending the truth again ?

John

 

[Freestone]

Does right-clicking on My Computer and choosing Properties show SP2? Or Start, Run, winver

What does Disk Management have to say about the drive? Start, Run, diskmgmt.msc

 

[LordGarsdale]

Properties showed SP2.
Got fed up and re-formatted the HDD with the same CD and it works !!!

Thanks for all your comments folks