I wouldn't expect the enabler to go back and re-format your existing drive partition -- that's a bit beyond its scope. There are three basic ways to handle this without reformatting the drive and attempting to start over: 1. Format the remaining space as a second partition. 2. Use the "Disk Manager" (this was in NT and 2K, so I expect it's still lurking somewhere within XP) to allocate the remaining space as an extension to the C: partition. On some level, it's really a second partition, but the OS will hide this and make it look like one big drive to applications and users. 3. Use a third party tool, such as Partition Magic, to extend the existing partition to the entire drive. David Gillett On 3 Aug 2004 at 21:42, Mary Boyes wrote: > Hi All > > Just finished building my first PC. Had a lot of fun and it was a success > except for the hard drive partition. The drive is a Maxtor 160GB ultra > series. Windows only can partition up to 137GB so I can't use all the > storage on the drive. > > I found the Maxtor support page on this problem and I downloaded sp1 and > then the Maxtor Big Drive Enabler. When I installed the Maxtor Big Drive > Enabler it said it was installed but when I went to device manager it said > the size of C is 131 GB but in the BIOS and under capacity in device > manager it is 160 and 156 GB. I am thinking that I need to have winxp with > sp1 before I format and downloading it after is not effective or am I doing > something wrong. Is there a way to get my C drive up to full capacity? > > My motherboard is a ASUS P4S8X with a sis648 so I can't use the Intel fix. > > I could get an Ultra ATA PCI adapter card if there is no other way and do > another winxp clean install. Although 137 GB is large enough I still would > like to have the use of all the storage. > > Thank you > > Mary boyes > > PCBUILD's List Owners: > Bob Wright<[log in to unmask]> > Drew Dunn<[log in to unmask]> Visit our website regularly for FAQs, articles, how-to's, tech tips and much more http://freepctech.com