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MrBarlow
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_ 		18. November 2005 @ 12:40 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Can anyone help with this.
The drive I bought was 160Gb sata. Three days after installing and putting about 30gigs of games & software back on, I have just noticed its only showing as a 137Gb drive.

Went to my M/B's website (asrock) and found this in the FAQ.


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Question:My hard drive is 160 GB, when I install Windows 2000 or Windows XP, I can only see 137 GB.

Answer:If you would like to use whole 160 GB as only one partition while installing the Windows OS, please make sure that your OS is Windows 2000 service pack 4 included or Windows XP service pack 1 included.
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The version of XP I installed from is old and dont come with SP1 on it. I have downed and installed SP2 since the re-install.
Is there any way I can get my pc to see the full size of the drive again without doing a re-install, or am I screwed and stuck with 137Gb until I reformat it??? Someone on another forum suggeste dplaying with partition magic to do this, but I am not sure exactly how???
Thanks.
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ddp
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_ 		18. November 2005 @ 12:48 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
use partition magic to consolodate the 2 partitions(137+13) into 1 partition
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MrBarlow
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_ 		18. November 2005 @ 12:49 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Its not seeing the extra few gigs though..
Thats my prob.. how do I get xp to see that extra bit of drive??
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ddp
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_ 		18. November 2005 @ 12:52 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
use the partition magic or are you saying partition magic is not seeing the missing 13gig?
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MrBarlow
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_ 		18. November 2005 @ 12:53 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Sorted now..
found this page
http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/faq/137_winxp.html
and had good info on it and a link to a file too which turned something on and the extra space the showed up in partition magic..
cheers!
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cprime06
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_ 		19. November 2005 @ 18:27 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
YEs i am having the same problem..SO what do i have to do ...do i need to install the first service pack then what to i do with partitition magic ?
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ddp
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_ 		19. November 2005 @ 18:40 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
install at least sp1 & read MrBarlow's last post with a link to seagate as same for all manufacturers of hd's.
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cprime06
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_ 		19. November 2005 @ 19:12 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Can someone plz help me...i cant see my extra gigs..i can only see 137 and i think i should be seeing 250...i installed that program "partition magic and the other one and followed those steps but they dont see to work
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