I have a 200GB hard drive that is only recognized as 128.
Sorry I just read this post. If you're still reading this thread, check the model # of your motherboard.
Usually older Pentium II and Pentium III mobo chipsets had problems with larger drives.
Search the Intel site or whatever site manufactured your mobo (or that of your computer manufacturer). See if there's been a BIOS upgrade.
With the latest upgrades all of the old mobos should recognize larger hard drives.
If that drive had 137 GB not recognized, it means they don't have SP1 (might be SP2?) not installed on XP.
AJ
That would be a possible cause.
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For anyone who has trouble finding out if they have SP2 installed:
Click 'Start'
Click 'Run'
Type winver
Click 'Ok'
This will display your windows version.
For anyone who has trouble finding out if they have SP2 installed:
CCleaner also says if you have SP2 installed (at the top under the CCleaner version number)
Thats right, forgot about that.
Paragon Hard Disk Manager 8 Special Edition + Complete Novice = Making new partition a piece of cake.
What a good programme this is to work with, although I must admit I had everything crossed while it was doing its thing.
Made a new 10gb partition successfully just using the New Partition Wizard.
My bit only took a minute or less. It was when the rebooting started, and the Paragon Engine took over that I had everything crossed. I have no experience of partitioning software, but to the novice eye, this seems to be a very slick operator.
Once everything was done, I quickly realised that like most new stuff we get, I needed a bigger one.
With this software, this was just as easy.
Advanced Partitioning Tasks > Redistribute Free Space Wizard.
30 seconds work. Paragon Engine does its thing. Job done. Now have a 25gb partition.
Thanks Eldmannen, for the Partitioning thread.
Thanks rridgely, for the initial Paragon software link and advice.
Thanks to Sputnik for his link back in April, to the Exclusive Computeractive Download Offer - Paragon Hard Disk Manager 8. Free.
Thanks to Sputnik for his link back in April, to the Exclusive Computeractive Download Offer - Paragon Hard Disk Manager 8. Free.
Paragon HD Manager is still available free despite the offer running out months ago:
http://www.computeractive.co.uk/hdmanager8/index
(I've just downloaded it and received a serial from the 'Click here to register' link )
IF you go ahead and create 2 partitions (1 for programs and the other for personal data) it is also good te change the location of the My Documents Folder. To do this, make sure you have the My Documents folder visible on your desktop (or in your startmenu). Right Click My Documents (on the desktop or the Start Menu) and choose Properties. As you can see, there are 3 buttons about half way on the window (because i use a dutch windows version i am going to assume a button name here). Click the one labeled with "Move" or "Relocate". Then choose the second partition that you have dedicated to (personal) data-drive and click OK, to confirm your selection. Click OK again and windows will ask you if you want to move everything from c:\documents and settings\username\my documents to d:\ and confirm this with a Yes (or OK). if you have much data in the c:\documents and settings\username\my documents folder, it will take a while to move all of it, but it will do the job. Now whenever you are trying to save something in the My Documents Folder, it is automaticly saved to the 2nd partition and thus a heck of a lot more safe. (also, many programs create folders in the My Documents folder for there own save files (also games do this often) and they are now also much safer then before...)
I'd recommend making a My Documents folder on the other drive/partition instead of leaving it to move the files to the root directory!
Paragon HD Manager is still available free despite the offer running out months ago:
http://www.computeractive.co.uk/hdmanager8/index
(I've just downloaded it and received a serial from the 'Click here to register' link
)
And it still works! ..lol..
I'm understand how this works. I have a 160 GB HDD, (although for some reason my computer only sees i have 130GB, but whatever its beside the point. EDIT: I have SP2 now, but when I first installed my OS, it didnt even have SP1, it was the barest OS for XP. I have a new computer, it was built last year. My mobo is ECS C51GM-M, new as of last year. There is a disk that has the mobo drivers when you first install it. I remember I didnt install the IDE driver, cos it made my HD crash, so I had to format and start over, when I was first beginning the installation. Maybe thats it?). So, I've had this computer for a year now, so obviously there are files everywhere. How do I go about making a system files only partition now? Is that possible?
Windows 95 max is 2GB or if drive is 3GB make in to 2 like 1.5 & 1.5 is ok not read hard drive it is all the Bios may need up date for free tools and info http:www.sec.co.kr
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Hello!
This post is about disk partitions and why they are so great!
They are so great, that in fact everyone should have one!
A good idea is to partition your harddisk to have 2 partitions.
This way you can have your operating system and system files on one partition (the primary partition) which usually is C:
Then you can have another secondary partition which is D:
where you store any other data such as media files (music, movies) and all sorts of stuff.
Maybe you have a 100 gb harddisk. Then you can allocate for example 20 gb to have on a system/primary partition (C:) where you have for example Windows XP. Then the rest (80 gb) you have on your secondary partition (D:).
This can help you keep stuff categorized and prevent you from accidently deleting something on the system partition when you are handling your files.
Now imagine if your operating system didnt work so well, you needed to reinstall it, and you thought it would be a good idea to reformat the harddisk. Now if you only had one partition on the harddisk you wouldnt be able to format the disk without all your files get deleted.
But because you have partitioned your harddisk to two or more partitions you can format the system partition, reinstall your operating system and still have all your files left intact since you cleverly stored them on the other disk partition.
So now you know!
my COMPAQ LAPTOP has recovery partition in D: known as PC RECOVERY i can FULL re install my pc but not deleting any files...
Alrite this actually two queries so plz help if u can. A mystery for you tech guys.
So my computer was acting slow & sluggish and i hadnt wiped my drives in ages so i did. I put the toshiba recovery disks, followed the instructions and now its in its factory state... BUT Toshiba satellite laptops have two hard drives C (main one 91g) and a back up D (110g). Now the C drive is good to go, but my D drive is nowhere to be found. How can I get it back? Thats 110 gigs i can use to put misc stuff.
Second Q) I backed up my vital stuff but i left alot of stuff I couldnt fit in my flash drives in that D drive (mostly 2g of music and some vids). Once I somehow restore my D drive, with your help, is that data recoverable. If not thats not to important compared to Q 1
Update: I was reading some of the prior posts and i went up to the Computer management page of My computer and the D drive is there as Disk 1. Its blacked out and says its "Not initiatived" and "unallocated" how can i attach it back and revive my files? Thanks guys.
Alrite this actually two queries so plz help if u can. A mystery for you tech guys.
So my computer was acting slow & sluggish and i hadnt wiped my drives in ages so i did. I put the toshiba recovery disks, followed the instructions and now its in its factory state... BUT Toshiba satellite laptops have two hard drives C (main one 91g) and a back up D (110g). Now the C drive is good to go, but my D drive is nowhere to be found. How can I get it back? Thats 110 gigs i can use to put misc stuff.
Second Q) I backed up my vital stuff but i left alot of stuff I couldnt fit in my flash drives in that D drive (mostly 2g of music and some vids). Once I somehow restore my D drive, with your help, is that data recoverable. If not thats not to important compared to Q 1
Update: I was reading some of the prior posts and i went up to the Computer management page of My computer and the D drive is there as Disk 1. Its blacked out and says its "Not initiatived" and "unallocated" how can i attach it back and revive my files? Thanks guys.
Hi Mangual, and welcome to the forum.
That sounds pretty drastic. You've probably wiped or corrupted the Master Boot Record on that drive.
The only thing I can suggest is this Free Open Source utility, which may help in recovering a lost Hard Drive.
If theres MBR problems you can insert a winxp disc and open the recovery console, pick your windows installation and I believe the command is "fixmbr"
Partitons are perfect for putting big files on, as usually your C:\ drive often has about 15GB of space used up for your OS. Usually most computers come with them.
No Question about the good point of having partition.
Lets now talk how big should be a good partition. Now these days its common to have 320Gb Hdd so, will 2 partition be good?
I saw a thread discussing about fragments, yeah we know it bu how much will be the ideal partition.
Depends what you want to use it for. I have 2 drives on my desktop, each is 500 gb. Didn't bother partitioning either.....but should have with the primary drive. Whichever drive has your operating system on it only needs to be big enough to hold your operating system with room for program additions, etc. If it was me, I wouldn't have my "C" drive any bigger then 50 gb or so....and use the rest for storage and such.
I've got my single 80gb drive set up with a 20gb partition for the Operating System. I've a lot of software installed, but it doesn't increase in size much any more as new installations are usually replacements for older or inferior programs.
Have about 6gb free on that partition.