Instaling own copy of XP pro on Dell D610.

howard14 · Mar 26, 2013

Hello all.
My Dell Latitude D610 only recognises 40gb of the 80gb marked on the Hitachi HDD.
I belive this is because Dell made it that way...My question is: can I format the HDD, and clean install my own (non Dell) copy of XP pro, and get the missing 40gb, and stand a chance of having the machine work normally? Many thanks.
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MuddyFunster · Mar 26, 2013

Is Windows currently installed? Are you familiar with the computer management console? Is your non Dell copy of XP Pro OEM or retail?

manicmike · Mar 26, 2013

I had that issue on my (now) legacy PC running XP Pro w/ SP3

What I did was go into the management console mentioned above and partition it as 2 seperate logical drives (aka 40GB for Drive G: and 40GB for Drive H: ), even though it is only 1 Pyhsical drive, older OSs have difficulty recognizing larger HDDs.

EDIT: I built it in 98, in 04 I put XP on it, and in 05 or 06 I did the large (for the time) HDD install and partitioned it as mentioned above.

howard14 · Mar 26, 2013

MuddyFunster :

Yes XP pro is installed and working. I am not familier with the managment console, The copy of XP pro can be whatever is best for me to lay my hands on.
Thanks.
Howard.

howard14 · Mar 26, 2013

manicmike :

Hi mike.
What ever I do, I must end up with the HDD recognised as drive 'c', also it would have to be seen as a good deal bigger than 40gb to suite the soft ware I want to install.
If I could make the machine recognise the full size of its Hdd that would probably do me.
I have looked in Disk managment, and found an 'unallocated partition' of 37.28 GB.
That would be handy if I could employ it...

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