Lower than expected hard disk space [athlon 64] [e machine]
Q: Hello all!
I st3200826a a Seagate 200 GB hard drive on a MS 7207 motherboard for an Athlon 64 3700 processor. It was originally in an E-Machine computer I bought at a store. I have again the computer and installed Windows XP Professional.
While instaslling windows and set the partitions, was less than the expected 200 GB hard disk space. After installing Windows, it still only shows 127.9 GB as opposed to the 200 GB should be.
Does everyone knows any possible causes or solutions to this problem? Thank you!
Best Answer: You have an onboard shared memory video chipset, what did you expect?
Game performance is primarily based on video card processing power and you are using a Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3100, which is a horrible onboard chipset, that does not even meed the game requirements for the games you listed.
Get a dedicated video card my friend, preferably one with at least 512Mb of VRAM. Newer cards are carrying up to 1GB VRAM onboard.
Re:Hello!
Thank you all for the quick responses. I didn't know it was such a common Windows XP problem.
I used the Disk Management as suggested and saw the unpartitioned space. I made a new partition, formatted, and it is working great.
Thanks for the suggestion!
Re:I thought that it had to be SP2 to regognize more then 127 GB. If you could install SP2 then you go to disk management you will probrably see the missing space as unpartitioned.
Re:Hello, thank you for your response.
Yes, the E-Machine computer came with Windows XP Home.
So I took my old dell copy of Windows XP Pro and loaded it on. It was probably an old copy of Windows XP pro.
Is there anyway to fix this without reformatting my computer again?
Thanks.
Edit:
Actually, I just looked at my Dell Reinstallation CD. It says Windows XP Professional Including Service Pack 1a. Is this still the problem?
Re:You are using an old copy of XP Pro CD. You need to have at least a service pack 1 or 2 cd to recognize more than 127GB.
Re:Do you have at least Service Pack 1 on Windows XP?
Have you updated your motherboard's BIOS?
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