My 160 gb is only 127 GB after installing XP Pro

I installed a 160 GB hd and installed Win XP Pro with NTFS. The
windows installation program dows only recognize a partion of 129 GB.

Any ideas?

Ken

"Kenneth" <> wrote in message
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> I installed a 160 GB hd and installed Win XP Pro with NTFS. The
> windows installation program dows only recognize a partion of 129 GB.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Ken

This is a problem with your motherboard - older boards will only recognise
up to 127gb - check the manufacturers site of your motherboard for a BIOS
update, failing that I dont think anything short of replacing the
motherboard will fix the problem, someone please correct me if I am wrong.

Regards,

The BIOS on all but the most recent motherboards limits the harddrive size
recognized to 137GB unformatted. That's about 129GB formatted. Also XP
only recognizes up to 137GB until you install SP1.

--
DaveW



"Kenneth" <> wrote in message
news: om...
> I installed a 160 GB hd and installed Win XP Pro with NTFS. The
> windows installation program dows only recognize a partion of 129 GB.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Ken