If XP is showing 137G AVAILABLE, it means that almost half the capacity is
already used for something. There is another figure that shows TOTAL SIZE
which is the amount of space on the partition. You might want to check how
the disk is partitioned using disk manager (Start/RUN diskmgmt.msc). Keep in
mind also that a 250GB had disk will only show about 232GB of space - due to
the difference between a binary GB and the hard drive marketing GB!

Peter Shkabara
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-----Original Message-----
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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