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Chain Rink
06-11-2006, 05:55 PM
I put in a new hard drive and did a re-format. 200 GB seagate. I made the main partition 20 GB for the OS. I made a page file partiton of 4 GB. I want to make my files partition and programs partition, but it only says 109 GB left. Shouldn't it be close to 175 GB left?

The main partition is in NTFS and the page file is fat32

Any ideas?

thanks
MetalSign
06-11-2006, 06:08 PM
I put in a new hard drive and did a re-format. 200 GB seagate. I made the main partition 20 GB for the OS. I made a page file partiton of 4 GB. I want to make my files partition and programs partition, but it only says 109 GB left. Shouldn't it be close to 175 GB left?

The main partition is in NTFS and the page file is fat32

Any ideas?

thanks

Do you have SP1 or 2 on your XP? I know when I got my 160Gb, my winXP would only address up to 137GB. One of the SP's had the fix for that.

Good luck, bro.
Chain Rink
06-11-2006, 06:11 PM
actually, I am about to download the sp patches right now. I will let you know if it fixes it. thanks
Chain Rink
06-11-2006, 06:25 PM
did microsoft change their update policy?

It says now I have to have a legit copy of XP to get any updates. I was always unable to get sp2, but I could always get sp1 and other patches no problem
Chain Rink
06-11-2006, 06:42 PM
I guess I have to buy xp off of newegg now. what is the difference between pro and home edition?

and is media center edition the same as home edition but with the extra media center options?
LZMF1
06-11-2006, 08:14 PM
I guess I have to buy xp off of newegg now. what is the difference between pro and home edition?

and is media center edition the same as home edition but with the extra media center options?
yup...that's it.

also...anytime you format a hard drive some of the space is lost. for example....the 320 gig hard drive i have as my secondary drive shows 298 gigs of usable space after being formatted.

sorry man....that's just the way it is.
MetalSign
06-11-2006, 08:44 PM
I guess I have to buy xp off of newegg now. what is the difference between pro and home edition?

and is media center edition the same as home edition but with the extra media center options?

You could always get a BT copy that has the SPs built into it...
Chain Rink
06-11-2006, 08:47 PM
Bt?
Cruzer
06-11-2006, 10:47 PM
Bt?
Bit Torrent
Chain Rink
06-11-2006, 11:15 PM
nah, I think it's time to go legit:icon_wink
blazin
06-12-2006, 02:56 AM
You can download the distributable service pack 2 file on microsoft's website. Its like a 200MB download and I dont think it goes thru any genuine validation
Capt.Hilarious
06-12-2006, 12:18 PM
Windows calculates gigabytes differently than most hard drive manufacturers. They claim that 1GB = 1024 Mb rather than the mathematically correct theory that 1GB = 1000 Mb. So, when Windows formats your nice new 350GB hard drive it displays it it as about 15 gigs less or so (which includes the install of XP). The space is all still there it's just displayed differently.
Sinn Fein
06-13-2006, 11:00 AM
Windows calculates gigabytes differently than most hard drive manufacturers. They claim that 1GB = 1024 Mb rather than the mathematically correct theory that 1GB = 1000 Mb. So, when Windows formats your nice new 350GB hard drive it displays it it as about 15 gigs less or so (which includes the install of XP). The space is all still there it's just displayed differently.

EXACTLY. I get asked about this all the time... especially now with the current monstrous hard drive sizes.