Hard drive recognition problem

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#1 taylord526
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Just finished building a new system and seem to have a size recognition problem with my hard drive. I'm running XP Pro SP2. After the install I noticed only 137 gigs were showing up out of my 5oo gigs. Device manager shows the 137 as my primary drive with the remaining portion as raw. Do I need to partition the hard drive into separate partitions, or is there a way to make windows see all 500 gigs as one drive?
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#3 Gog
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If you installed XP with a version not including SP1 or SP2 you'll be limited to 138 GB partitions.

You can

1) create a second partition with teh remaining disk space

2) repartition and reinstall XP with a CD including SP2

3) use a third-party program like Partition Magic to increase the current partition