Need fix for a 250GB HD recognized as 127GB

I'm trying fix the issue of XP only recognizing 127GB of my 250GB hard drive. I want to open this drive up to one large partition and not have the 127GB and 108GB partitions I have now. Is there any way to do this without wiping out the drive and starting all over with a reformat and reinstall of XP? Also, in the bottom right corner of windows, I think it's the taskbar, the remove hardware icon is present with the option to remove the hard drive. How can I remove this icon so its not accidentally used?

when you install xp press "F6" and load the drivers for the drive connections. should have come on a CD w/ the MB otherwise download them from the maufacturer's website.

Have you installed win xp service pack 2?

You need to enable Logical Block Addressing support. This article tells you how
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=303013

check your jumper settings especially if it's a seagate then check your bios settings.

The hard drive problem is fairly simple. I just had the same issue. You need to install Service Pack 2 it will solve your problem. If you are like me and have problems with SP 2 try to "slipstream" the update. It is pretty easy and you get a bootable XP SP2 disk out of it


http://www.helpwithwindows.com/WindowsX ... ootcd.html