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Hi guys, ok this one's complicated. I have an abit fatality an8 sli with an Athlon64 3500+. I was running vista 32 bit. Was. It all started when I wanted to install the Uguru utility. Then I found out its not compatible with Vista for my motherboard model, so I thought what the hell, I'll go back to Windows Xp, and at the same time I might as well update my BIOS. So I updated my BIOS no troubles at all, then proceeded to install Windows XP. In order to do so I had to delete my partition and create a new one in the windows xp setup. Easy enough. All was well and good until I checked the free space in windows. It said total 185GB, 125GB free. Which as we all know is impossible because a Windows XP installation does not take up 60GB. So I tried again, this time swapping my hard drive to another computer deleting the existing partition and creating a new one in the unallocated space using Norton Partition magic. The partition I created was primary, assigned the drive letter C: and given the maximum size allowable to my drive, 190000~MB. So I put the drive back in my computer, start up the windows xp setup. It says and I QUOTE "DEVICE 0 ID 0 131070MB - Partition 1 C:\WinXP 190000~MB(190000~MB free)" How the HELL can it say my 200gb hdd is '131070MB' ???? And worse, how can a partition of 185gb exist on a supposedly 125gb hard drive (which it is NOT). So I added another seagate 160gb hard drive. Booted into the windows setup, deleted partition on first drive. Get this: Both drives are device0 id0 131070MB, 131069MB unallocated. When they should be 200gb and 160gb respectively. What makes it more difficult is that my BIOS reads both disks, in separate channels, with their correct sizes. I'm super stuck here people, any help would be awesome.
Thanks
Rubix
EDIT: I fixed it :) thanks anyway
Gigabyte 3d Aurora 570 | Coolermaster Real Power M1000 | Core i7 920 @ 4.0ghz w/ Coolermaster V10 | DFI LanParty DK-X58-T3EH6 | Evga GTX275 SLI @ FTW clocks | 3x2GB Patriot 1600mhz | Seagate 500GB x2, 1.5TB, FreeAgentPro 500GB | Dell 2408WFP | Windows 7 Professional x64
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