When installing XP on a Seagate 500gb HDD w/3GB/s the OS loaded the drive as a 127 GB partition even though my bios reconized it as 500 and now there’s a limit on the drive. I desperately needed a machine to work on and the cap wasn’t a problem for me at the moment, but now I am having the trouble of reconizing just how to regain my data status.
My considerations are to:
Buy a couple cheap drives and use them in a RAID 1 for partition use, or if need be use them seperately, but that’s another issue.
Then take the drive i have now and format it, then use it for data storage. I have no problem with setting up the RAID, but what I’d like to know is the why and how of this partition cap by XP. It’s extremely frustrating and I don’t know where to turn. I read in the intruction manual that if you don’t have at least serivice pack 1 with XP installed that you cannot use the drive beyond a 137 GB extent(different #), but I havn’t even installed XP at the time much less a service pack. If any one has any suggestions I’d be welcome to hear them. Thank You
