Could someone give me some idea of what's going on with my computer? I am trying to install Windows XP Professional on my computer, currently running XP Home. I've partitioned my hard drive using Gnome Partition Manager (brilliant utility) into three sections: C:\ E:\ and F:\, with sizes of 100GB, 90GB and 90GB respectively. I'm planning on installing XP Pro into drive F.
Well, I booted from the CD, and it came up with XP Professional setup. I went along with it until it came to the "select partition" screen. On that screen, just one partition called C, and no free space showed up. What's more bemusing, it claimed that there were 131072MBs of total space in that partition (that's exactly 128GB), with 131071MBs free.
So it reckons that I have a 128GB hard drive, completely formatted, with no partitions made to it. In reality, I have a 280GB hard drive, with three partitions, one of which is being used and has nearly 50GB of data on it at the moment.
Well, I booted from the CD, and it came up with XP Professional setup. I went along with it until it came to the "select partition" screen. On that screen, just one partition called C, and no free space showed up. What's more bemusing, it claimed that there were 131072MBs of total space in that partition (that's exactly 128GB), with 131071MBs free.
So it reckons that I have a 128GB hard drive, completely formatted, with no partitions made to it. In reality, I have a 280GB hard drive, with three partitions, one of which is being used and has nearly 50GB of data on it at the moment.
