Windows XP Pro doesn't recognize my complete hard drive.

Let me make an example of a 120 GB Seagate 7200.7+. It has 234,441,648 sectors x 512 bytes = 120,034,123,776 bytes and Seagate lables the HDD 120 GB (decimal).

FDISK and the Operating System see the size binary: 1 kB = 1,024 (2^10) bytes, 1 MB = 1,048,576 (2^20) bytes and 1 GB = 1,073,741,824 (2^30) bytes.

120,034,123,776 / 1,024 = 117,220,824 kB

120,034,123,776 / 1,048,576 = ~114,473 MB

120,034,123,776 / 1,073,741,824 = ~111.790 GB

There is a chance that I picked the correct HDD but anyhow, I believe that this will explain the discrepancy and that it is normal.

Christer

Edited:

Reference the links provided by Jim, the HDD size limit in WinXP pre SP1 is at ~128 GB which makes Your drive unaffected.

 

Nope, 120,000,000,bytes = 0.112 GB ...... ...... !

Christer