I hope this is the right place to ask you mybae simple guestion,but I can't fix it.I bye a HD with 40gb volume,but when I instal xp I have only 32 gb,the 8 gb is lost and I choose a large partition in fdisk.

Can you help me guys? ;)

It seems like your Motherboard might need to have it's BIOS upgraded, as some older m-boards won't support more than 32GB. Check the website of the manufacturer of your PC or the m-board.

thanx for your answer,but I have a new motherbord with nvidia chipset at Atlon xp1800.Can you tell me what options I must set in bios?
thanx :)

Even though 8 gb may sound a little high Rudi you never get the stated capacity. On my machine:

My 80 GB is reported as 74.5
My 120 GB reports as 111

thanx "source"now I see,I just don't know that and I think that this 8 GB just hide somewhere in HD :)

thanx for answer!

Is it the only drive in your computer? Make sure you have set the jumpers correctly and accordingly and not on cable select.

I know that XP reserves a certian amount for partitioning, a fe MB not GB though.

Hmmmm...

8 gig does sound a bit high. Are you using fat 32 or NTFS?

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If it's FAT32 it's because XP has a limitation were it can only make and format up to 32gigs in FAT32.
Beats the hell out of me why, seems like a big step backwards.

It has no trouble using a bigger partition size it just can't make and format it.
On a new install use a DOS boot disk to make and format the partition. Since you already have it installed you can use Partition Magic to expand it.
Dave

Rudi1: If running XP as we suspect you do, why not redo the operation and make it NTFS? Or am I missing something here about your setup? What do you mean, in your first post, with "when I instal xp I have only 32 gb,the 8 gb is lost and I choose a large partition in fdisk."?

Dont forget that 1mb does not in fact equal 1mb - bios makes some interesting changes to allow this ongoing old technology to work... so if we convert 1mb in bios language, you will in fact loose some hd space.