The 137GB limit is one of those strange quirks with WinXP. The pre-execution
environment for the Windows installation process still have difficulties
seeing drive geometry beyond a certain limit, even now with Vista. There are
third-party partitioning tools like PartitionMagic that can help resize
existing partitions, or make them correctly for the install process to see
and use.

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[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Harvey Rose
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 8:01 PM
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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?

Harvey Rose
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