1000 gb hdd only recognizes 132 gb

I recently purchased a samsung spinpoint 1000 gb hdd (HD 103UJ) as a
replacement drive for the current system. Went thru normal windows xp pro
installation process and the drive seemed to be set up fine. But only 132 gb
are being shown for volume C. Device Manager shows capacity 954 gb,
Unallocated Space 823gb. ('my computer' shows 'local disk c' total size 127
gb). How can I go about using the total drive

"harlan_da" wrote in
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> I recently purchased a samsung spinpoint 1000 gb hdd (HD 103UJ) as a
> replacement drive for the current system. Went thru normal windows xp pro
> installation process and the drive seemed to be set up fine. But only 132 gb
> are being shown for volume C. Device Manager shows capacity 954 gb,
> Unallocated Space 823gb. ('my computer' shows 'local disk c' total size 127
> gb). How can I go about using the total drive

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harlan_da wrote:
> I recently purchased a samsung spinpoint 1000 gb hdd (HD 103UJ) as a
> replacement drive for the current system. Went thru normal windows xp pro
> installation process and the drive seemed to be set up fine. But only 132 gb
> are being shown for volume C. Device Manager shows capacity 954 gb,
> Unallocated Space 823gb. ('my computer' shows 'local disk c' total size 127
> gb). How can I go about using the total drive

Some background info here. Resizing the partition with Partition Magic
might work, assuming you used an SP1 or SP2 version of WinXP to do the
install. Or creating a second partition in Disk Management, may give you
access to the rest of the space. In cases like this, I like to test that
all the space really works (fill the disk with test files), before I'd trust
it to hold real data. But that is just me...

http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/tp/137gb.pdf

Paul

If you want to use all the drive as "C:\" then you need to use XP with SP1,
SP2. If your setup disk is an original (which it sounds like it is) then you
need to slipstream a new disk with SP2 or SP3 if you are brave. The original
XP would not support hard drive larger than 132Gb.
If you just want to use all the disk and want the remaining amount as a
second drive then look at disk management to create a new partition in the
remaining space.
As already stated you could use partition magic or partition manager to
increase the drive to the full capacity.
hope that helps
Neil
"harlan_da" <harlanda@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:748AC1CF-3EF8-41BF-8A1E-5D4D0DA2206C@microsoft.com...
>I recently purchased a samsung spinpoint 1000 gb hdd (HD 103UJ) as a
> replacement drive for the current system. Went thru normal windows xp pro
> installation process and the drive seemed to be set up fine. But only 132
> gb
> are being shown for volume C. Device Manager shows capacity 954 gb,
> Unallocated Space 823gb. ('my computer' shows 'local disk c' total size
> 127
> gb). How can I go about using the total drive

Your BIOS is out of date. Some older systems from the Pentium III era could
not use disks bigger than 132 GB but with modern dual-core platforms there
is an new version of LBA with support for larger disks.



"neil" <neilp67_@_hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:VjUUj.78$HK1.69@newsfe08.ams2...
> If you want to use all the drive as "C:\" then you need to use XP with
> SP1, SP2. If your setup disk is an original (which it sounds like it is)
> then you need to slipstream a new disk with SP2 or SP3 if you are brave.
> The original XP would not support hard drive larger than 132Gb.
> If you just want to use all the disk and want the remaining amount as a
> second drive then look at disk management to create a new partition in the
> remaining space.
> As already stated you could use partition magic or partition manager to
> increase the drive to the full capacity.
> hope that helps
> Neil
> "harlan_da" <harlanda@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:748AC1CF-3EF8-41BF-8A1E-5D4D0DA2206C@microsoft.com...
>>I recently purchased a samsung spinpoint 1000 gb hdd (HD 103UJ) as a
>> replacement drive for the current system. Went thru normal windows xp
>> pro
>> installation process and the drive seemed to be set up fine. But only
>> 132 gb
>> are being shown for volume C. Device Manager shows capacity 954 gb,
>> Unallocated Space 823gb. ('my computer' shows 'local disk c' total size
>> 127
>> gb). How can I go about using the total drive
>
>