130Gig and WINXP Limit

[rockhoward]

I have a 200gig Western Digital ULTRA IDE HD and Windows XP home edition.

I can only get windows XP to recognize about 130gigs of the HD and I heard this is a built in limit.

I Used the UIDE card the the HD came with when hooking in the IDE cables. In The BIOS it recognizes it as a 186gig HD, which would make sense. In some other things as well i've notices it lists the GIGS close to 200. Under MY Computer though it will only read up to 130gig. I have tried using partition magic but the demo version might not let me incorperate the extra 60gigs of free partition on the disk? I don't really know how to go about this, I have been using the HD for a while and the problem is it's comming close to full. I do regular defrags and sweeps on it so it's all running pretty kocsher.

[glc]

Do you have XP SP1 installed? You need it. Also, if it's an Intel chipset motherboard, you need the latest Intel Application Accelerator.

After the fact, the only way to add the extra space into the existing drive letter is with Partition Magic. However, you can use Disk Management (right click My Computer, Manage) to create a new partition from the unallocated space.