137gb is a limit in XP without service packs
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/303013/en-us
if you have an xp disk with sp1 or sp2 it will recognise the whole drive,
assuming you don't have a bios limitation on your motherboard
You can slipstream SP2 using a program like Nlite or Autostreamer and burn a 
install disk
You will have to reinstall from scratch however.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Harvey Rose" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 2008-02-26 08:00 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Hard drive size problem


>I bought a new computer that has a 250G drive - Western Digitial SATA. When 
>I run the system information from Windows XP it shows only 137G available. 
>It is formatted in NTFS. The model is WD2500AAKS. They put Windows XP on 
>for me. I have installed my programs starting to transfer files from my old 
>hard drive okay but started run to out of space(Also putting new programs 
>on). Is the operating system Windows XP Home edition reporting the wrong 
>space or did they format it to this limit?
> 

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