Could any one help, I have a Packard Bell Imedia 5093 I got the system second hand as the hard drive was beyond repaire.
System: Windows XP
Microprocessor: Intel Pentium 2.53GH processor
RAM: 512MB DDR
Vidio Memory: nVIDIA MX440 64MB TV OUT
Hard Disk: 250GB Western Digital
Sound Chip: Stereo
Motherboard: Columbia 2

I have replaced the hard drive, the old drive was 80GB I replaced it with a Western Digital 250GB, but for some reason it is only recognised as 127GB.
I have been trying to sort this for a few weeks now and no one seems to know.
I have formatted the system on a couple of occasions and this has not worked. Packard bell does not seem to want to help with any advice, I just hope someone out there can help me, I want to get this sorted as quickly as possible so I can start using it.
The system I am using at the moment is not the Packard bell machine

Hi and welcome to D-A-L

have you got all the updates tp SP2?

have you partioned the drive?

Originally Posted by briano

I have replaced the hard drive, the old drive was 80GB I replaced it with a Western Digital 250GB, but for some reason it is only recognised as 127GB.

The problem might be with old BIOS that doesn't support big hard disks. Try to search for BIOS update. Also, there might be some standard steps to fix the problem at web-site of hard disk manufacturer.

This is usually a common case if an Operating System other than Windows XP SP2 is installed. A solution would be to use a utility called "Partition Magic" which can be downloaded online.

From Western Digital FAQs:

The full capacity of EIDE drives larger than 137GB (128GB binary) is not recognized in Windows 2000/XP

Operating System and BIOS limitations - 137GB, 32GB, 8.4GB

The full capacity of an EIDE drive is not recognized by the system BIOS.

How to use the Data Lifeguard Tools 11 CD to partition and format a drive larger than 137GB (128GB binary) in Windows 2000/XP - Download Data Lifeguard Tools 11

Yes used SP2 did not work.
I have just partitioned the drive with Partition Manager as I had a the full programe on a disk, partitioned the drive, at 125GB and 107GB with a total size of 232GB thanks for the help