I highly recommend buying two or more smaller drives (with one partition each) rather than one HUGE one with several partitions.
Also, another common reason why harddrives do not show up the right capacity:FAT16 File system: Max 2GB partitions (I think this counts FDisk with no large disk support)FAT32 (on Win9X): 2 TB (Terrabytes)FAT32 (on Win2000 and XP): 32GbNTFS (Pre SP1 installer): 127GB (or there abouts.)NTFS (SP1 or higher): 2 TB
Found this:QuoteAlso, another common reason why harddrives do not show up the right capacity:FAT16 File system: Max 2GB partitions (I think this counts FDisk with no large disk support)FAT32 (on Win9X): 2 TB (Terrabytes)FAT32 (on Win2000 and XP): 32GbNTFS (Pre SP1 installer): 127GB (or there abouts.)NTFS (SP1 or higher): 2 TBAre you running XP at < SP1 ?
did you get XP cd with compurer? if its new it should be sp2.
If you've only just installed xp, reinstall, and when it comes to set up options again, delete all partitions (some pc's have hidden partitions with drivers and windows on them) and see what it tells you you have space on the hard drive when you create your c: partition again