I got a new hard drive yesterday from Canada Computers. I decided to get a 160 GB Seagate drive, instead of the 320 GB Seagate drive, even though the 320 GB drive was only $20 more. I’m not exactly rolling in money right now, so I figured I’d save the money, and I don’t really need 320 GB right now anyway. Good thing I didn’t get one that big, or I’d be more ticked off than I already am right now.

So of course in order to get Windows XP installed on this drive, instead of the one it was already running on, I’d have to format the new disk first. I ended up installing Windows, and then accidentally doing a repair on top of it, which basically started the whole installation process all over again. This is after I did all of the Windows Updates. That’s over 100 updates, for your information. Grrrr. I was pissed off. But what really irked me is how my drive was saying it was only 127 GB in size, even though it’s a 160 GB drive. Now I know the amount shown is not the actual size of the drive, because part of it is being used by system files, so you don’t see the real amount. However, Windows does not need over 30 GB of space for system files, so I thought maybe I created a partition by accident while formatting the drive. That’s how I accidentally did the repair. So I cut short the repair, and did a full format of the drive again, and then reinstalled Windows again, did all the updates, and then looked for an answer online as to why my drive was missing over 30 GB of space. Turns out that Windows XP installation disks made before 2002 do not support drives over 130 something odd GB’s. Well isn’t that nice to know now, after buying a 160 GB drive. There doesn’t seem to be anything I can do about it either. Oh well, at least I still have lots of space available, and my computer does seem to be working a bit faster now running Windows on this new drive, instead of that old crappy one from 2002. It did it’s time though.