Need help with new motherboard issues!!!!!!

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  1. URYNOME

    URYNOME Member

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    Hey guys
    I just bought this new mobo

    http://canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowProduct&cmd=pd&pid=015038&cid=MB.157

    I also changed my CPU to the new 6600 quad core. and got a new graphics card which I really doubt are part of the problem.

    I reformatted my hardrives and all drives are reading only 127 gigs, I have one IDE drive which is 180 gigs and a SATA drive 320 gigs. I have XP SP2, during the boot up it shows the correct sizes of the drives. I have searched all over the net and the only help I can find is about the SP1 xp problem. HELP!!!
     
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    Did you install SP2 after you installed windows?
     
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    arrghh I dont know what the problem is. I tried that link you sent me and downloaded the EnableBigLba auto program and mine passed! but it still shows only 127 gigs. I have service pack 3 installed now as well.

    Also to the other guy, yes, I installed sp2 after installing windows, is it possible to install before?!?!
     
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  5. goodswipe

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    What DDP was trying to point to you is that this is normal. Windows allocates a certain amount of space to things, so that's why you are seeing that. Not too sure about that SATA drive though, it shouldn't be reading that size.

    Are you seeing this in disk management? How did you format them? During the install or through disk management?
     
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  6. URYNOME

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    I formatted them while installing windows.

    I just looked at disk management and it is showing the full amounts but on the big drive it is showing 244 gigs as unallocated and 40 gigs on the other. I will read up on that and see what I can do unless you are around noew and have an answer for me :)

    thanks for the help so far.
     
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    URYNOME, is your xp the original version without a service pack because it looks like it which is what is causing the problem? do you have a smaller drive to load windows on then update to sp2 & have a copy of norton ghost or acronis? other option is do you have a floppy drive & a floppy bootdisk of win98 or me to format the drive to full capacity then load xp & sp2 on it?
     
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  8. URYNOME

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    hey thanks for mentioning the disk managment thing I didnt know about it. I was able to create new partitions with the unallocated space. I wanted unpartitioned full drives but this will do. thanks again. Afterdawn ALWAYS comes up with solution and makes me feel stupid in the process. :)
     
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  9. goodswipe

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    No problem, always glad to help.
     
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