300gb Hard drive is limited to just 31.4gb i have an old pc but have installed xp on it?
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If it is only accessing 31.4 gbs there definately something wrong. First check the Disk Manager to see if it can read the entire drive, to get there right click My computer and click the manage button. A window will pop up and one of the options on the left side will say "Disk Management" Click that and in the right box a screen will appear showing all your drives, see if your 300gb drive is registered as having 300gb or only the 31. To check this look at the bar next to the drive, if most of the bar is black and a small portion is green it just means that you did not partition and format the rest of the drive, right click the black area and click the Create Partition option. If it still only registers 31.4 gbs the drive could be corrupt or your chipset drivers do not support that hard drive. Also make sure that the 300 gb drive is formatted using NTFS and not FAT32. You are saying it's an older computer and that you installed XP on it. Check your Drivers for your Chipset by right clicking my computer, and clicking manage again. This time click the Device Manager option on the left. Scroll down to the System Devices and expand it by clicking the little + sign next to it. There you will see alot of drivers coming out of it. Look to see if the drivers for your pci bridge, processor to I/O, etc drivers have a long number in the driver name like "intel 96404384590 pci bridge" if it does not have those numbers in it than it is a generic driver that Windows has loaded because it does not have the correct driver, and you will need to find the driver for your motherboard to get full capabilities on your computer, including all the space in your hard drive. Hope this helps you.
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part of the installation process for xp is to erase the hard drive including previous system. if you do not want to erase 98 you can leave it but they don't work together. good luck.
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I'm assuming you mean your harddrive capacity, How much storage you have for space? This is different then RAM. \n\n\nIf you are talking about hard drives, then you can buy a 300GB hard drive for around 100$, and a 120GB hard drive for about 40$.\n\nAfter you buy it, they are fairly simple to install. Take off your case cover, touch the back of the case to ground yourself. then set the hard drive in the slot for it in your case. and plug the power cord and the one IDE cable(or SATA depending on your computer) and you should be set. When you start windows you can go to my computer and another hard drive will come up probably as letter D replacing your CD drive, unless you currently have a secondary harddrive or partition. IF you want everything on your new harddrive, then you will have to install windows directly on it.\n\n\nIt seems like you might end up needing more help then just this, I would suggest signing up at a Computer/Tech forum and asking, since you can reply in the topic and get easier help then asking a new question each time. My favorite would be xTechForum.com(hence my name) it's a smaller more community based forum, but it's still extremely helpful, but if you want a large one, you can try tech-forums.net
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As a serious tip, if you need more disk space, delete things, or buy a new hard drive.  The 'compress old files' is a terribly implemented feature in Windows XP.  I recommend not using it.
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If you have the original ME CD, I would recommend recovering it by formating your harddrive and reinstall your ME.  You may want to make 2 partitions (C & D) and install ME and XP seperately.  ME as FAT32 while XP as NTFS.  Good luck.  Hope you backup all your data before.  Otherwise, use the bootdisk to go to C drive and backup everything onto an external harddrive via USB or firewire.
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If you are using an XP upgrade disk than it will "upgrade" you system without bothering your personal apps or files. However experience shows that the system will not be as stable as a clean install.   384 megs of RAM is enough.
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you probably have multiple partitions. i would recommend a program like partition magic. i think they may have a free version. it not then go to 'my computer' and see if there is more than one hard drive icon. if so, then you probably installed xp on another partition. im going to take a wild guess and assume you have a compaq. they have a recovery partition. you more than likely installed it on the recovery partition. if so, then just run the restore program and have it set your computer back to the factory default conditions.
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Get a copy of Windows XP and install it.\n\n-J
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Very easy to find on the internet:\n\nhttp://www.qdigrp.com/qdisite/eng/Products/A5-133.htm\n\nRam: Maximum would be 768 SD Ram\n\nHard drive space is limited depending on what operating system / file system you are using. If you are using NTFS then almost any size hard drive will be recognized. If you are using an older operating system such as Windows 98 and have Fat or Fat32 installed then you will have troubles recognizing over 80g. The way around the old Fat limitation would be to partition your hard drive in partitions of less than 80g or try to find a patch from Microsoft that addresses the issue.\n\nPartitioning large harddrives is always a good idea though, as it limits defragmentation and keeps your hard drive running longer and smoother.
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Check to see if your computer will support running Windows XP Professional. \nRecommended by Microsoft:\n300 MHz CPU *\n128 MB of RAM *\n1.5 GB of available hard disk space *\nSuper VGA (800 x 600) or higher-resolution video adapter with at least 8 MB of video RAM and monitor\nCD-ROM or DVD drive\nNetwork adapter\nSound card and speakers\nKeyboard and Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device\n* I recommend a minimum 450MHz CPU, 8GB HDD, 256MB of RAM\n\nthen Purchase an OEM license of Windows XP and replace your current outdated operating system.\nYou can find stores on eBay who sell windows XP OEM version for under $150.
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What do you have - XP, NT or 2000?\nIn any case it looks like you need to use an emergency repair procedure or simply try to upgrade existing version with the same version. You could avoid loosing your data.\nIf it won't help you have more options:\n1. Try to connect your HD to a different PC and save data\n2. If this is not an option - reinstall fresh without formatting, it will preserve your data. Copy data, and reinstall with formatting for the clean installation
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This is one of the most common problems that PC computer users have and it frustrates them to no end.  There are many possible causes that may cause Windows XP to run very slow. Carry out the few basic checks below first and if they don't help, then try my other suggestions.  \n\nCheck 1:- How much Disk Space Do You Have Free?\nThe size of your hard disk is sufficient but check to see that it isn't full.  To do this open Windows file explorer select the C: drive do a right mouse button click and select "Properties" to see how much free space is on the C: drive. You need to have at least 2Gb free hard disk space otherwise Windows XP will strugle.  If you have been downloading videos and music files, you may have run out of hard disk space. If your remaining capacity of your C: drive is 7.75Gb then you should be ok.\n\nCheck2:- Is Your Hard Disk Performing At It's Best?\nDo a health check on your hard disk by running the Windows Disk Cleanup and Disk Defragmenter tools.\nGoto start->All Programs->Accessories->System Tools->Disk Cleanup and after the hard disk has been cleaned up then run the Disk Defragmenter tool as well. This will allow Windows to find and retrive files faster.\n\nCheck 3:- Do You Have Enough Free RAM Physical Memory?\nWindows XP runs better and faster when you have more RAM memory for it and your programs to use. If you only have 128Mb of RAM, this could be the reason why Windows is running slow. You can use the Windows Task Manager to find out how much RAM memory is being used when you are using all the programs that you would normally run. Right click on the Windows Task Bar and select "Task Manager". Then click on the "Performance" tab. Look at how much physical memory you have available compared to the total. On my computer I have 256Mb of physical RAM and 15% or 40Mb available after running 3 programs. I would recommend at least 256Mb of RAM for Windows XP. If you need more RAM then you have two choices: (1) buy and upgrade the RAM or (2) use a RAM memory optimiser in the short term. Check out the resources below for more information and websites. Either way I would recommend you upgrade your RAM and your computer will run faster.\n\nCheck 4:- Has Your Computer Been Infected?\nIf you have been surfing the web, it is more than likely that your computer may be infected with malicious software that is "chewing up" your computer resources and making it run slow. Without further specific details about your computers slow behaviour it is difficult to give you specific fixes.\n\nHere is a list of questions that would help to identify exactly what is happening with your computer:\n\nQ1. Do you get errors appearing? If yes, what do the errors say?\n\nQ2. Is your computer slow to start-up? How long does it take?\n\nQ3. Do your programs crash or hang? How often?\n\nQ4. How much RAM do you have on your PC?\n\nQ5. Does you computer slow down only after running a specific program such as a game?\n\nQ6. Do you have a firewall, antivirus program, spyware remover or other similar removers running in the backgournd?\n\nQ7. What type of programs do you use regularly?\n\nQ8. Does you computer slow down gradually, or almost immediately?\n\nGenerally this is what you need to check if your computer is running slow:\n\n1. Scan and remove all forms of adware, viruses, spyware and other malicious software that may be running on your computer without your knowledge.\n\n2. Make sure you have the lastest Windows updates installed\n\n3. Find out what programs are starting up on your computer automatically and disable the ones you don't want to start-up when you power-up your PC\n\n4. Use the Task Manager to find out how many processes are running on your computer and identify the ones that don't need to be running and stop them.\n\n5. Do a hard disk health check and defragment it regularly.\n\n6. Perform other regular computer maintenance checks and housekeeping
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a 300 gb hdd has a space capacity for  279.45 gb only
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Best to buy new PC because Windows XP requires about 512 MB RAM to function efficiently. If you have that much then I would recommend reformatting, it might be better for performance.
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Yes, update to SP2 and convert your FAT file system to NTFS...it's much better filing system for your OS..\nWhy? Because you installed the OS using NTFS, and the other I would imagine is either another partition, or it's a Slave Drive...You can always reformat it and convert it to NTFS...Always use NTFS for XP operating systems...
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sounds like you are having trouble with your hard drive. My advice would be to replace hard drive. They are not too expensive as I just bought a 80 gig at walmart for $62.00.You will get software with hard drive that will allow you to copy eveything on old hard drive to new one. You said computer boots up so this should work. The procedure is simple. Leave old hard drive alone and hook up new hard drive as a slave on the same ide port. install software and tell it you want to make a bootable drive. this copies operating system and programs on new hard drive. When finished turn computer off ,remove old hard drive and make new hard drive a master and turn on computer. It will be like a new computer and you won't lose anything. Sounds olike hard drive is shakey at best and you will want to replace it before you lose eveything. hope this helps. If computer doesn't boot correctly you may have to run the recovery function to restore everything but I know sometimes that is not possible. If that is the case then you will have to buy another copy of xp.
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This depends greatly on what you plan to do with the computer.  The XP Pro install will take up about 3 GB, but XP Pro by default will try to create a 3GB page file, so if you only have a 6GB HD windows will complain right away that you have low disk space.  Of course you can reduce the size of the swap file to correct this.  Office takes up about 500MB if you do the complete install.  So basically you want to have at least 8GB or so if you just plan to use office.  If you plan on doing anything else go bigger.  It's hard to find new hard drives smaller than 40GB any more and you can get them for around $45 so if you need more space I recommend that.\n     It's is also important that with XP you have at least 256MB RAM for decent performance.   512 is recommended.