hello, can u help me i have a 300gb hard drive. windows xp only found 127gb i then installed service pack 1 and it found the rest i have been into disk management and tried to format the unallocated space but it wont format it???!!!.
2007-01-29 02:49:11 · 9 answers · asked by tracey 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
do u hav ur windows cd? install dat and format it..itl delete evrythin in c:
2007-01-29 02:52:48 · answer #1 · answered by YAHOO! Answers 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
if this is your C drive you will not be able to do the formatting. If you are seeing the rest of the hard drive as another lerrter than you may need to allocate it first as an extended drive. You should be able to do this in the Disk management program. Or if you have the option pull the hard drive out and hook it up as a slave to another XP pc. Then do your formatting.
2007-01-29 10:57:14 · answer #2 · answered by Mike M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you can go to the Xp Start up Wizard. from the XP boot able CD then when you reach to the point to choose the drive or partition which you ll install the xp on the drive. you ll find there a unused space you can make a partition by use Letter C,
then make restart without complete the windows setup then format it in windows application if this didn't work tell me and i ll give you another way
2007-01-29 10:58:58 · answer #3 · answered by Agnh 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Even you re size the partition make it bigger or create new partition in the UN allocated space then format it you end up with two partitions or you delete the partition and lose every thing and insert windows disk and let windows create new partition the full size of the hard drive.
2007-01-29 11:08:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Someone else will better answer this, but just make sure you dont format it if its your only hard drive. That will wipe out your system, and you'll have to start from scratch and re-install windows.
Someone else can give you the details (I have to run, sorry)
2007-01-29 10:53:41 · answer #5 · answered by Dee 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
"Sled" is correct. The problem is with the BIOS on your mainboard ...not with Windows or the hard drive itself.
More info :
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013
regards,
Philip T
2007-01-29 11:13:31 · answer #6 · answered by Philip T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i would try a disk managing application like partition magic myself ...
2007-01-29 10:55:02 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Check your mainboard. Does it support 48bit LBA ?
Use service pack 2 if you can.
Check this site 48bitLBA.com
2007-01-29 11:03:08 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
What are you trying to do? I mean, what's the problem you're trying to fix or the objective you are trying to reach?
2007-01-29 10:58:52 · answer #9 · answered by snvffy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋