XP x64 Secondary HD and Drivers

Hello All,

Been searching the archives for a while and I still can't find the answer
i'm looking for; when I installed my second 500 GB hard disk, I went to Disk
Management and everything went smoothly except for the fact that I am only
left with 465GB of space. I understand that I won't be able to use the full
500 gigs but losing 36gb seems a bit excessive to me. Are there any
workarounds or did I do something wrong?

Also , when installing certain devices such as a smart card reader or usb
data link, they don't support the x64 version of Xp I'm running, and I can't
get them to work, even if I try and install the vista drivers or install them
to my x86 program file folders. Is there any way to force them to recognize
the drivers or an alternative besides using a virtual machine to run these
programs when I need them?

Thanks in advance,

Waruta

Dominic
Sun Mar 02 04:46:32 PST 2008

Hard disk drive manufacturers assume that 1 GB equals to 1 billion (10^9)
bytes, while 1 GB equals 1,073,741,824 (2^30) bytes.

500x10^9/1,073,741,824=465.66GB which is the available space you are seeing.


Vista drivers are unlikely to work with XP x64. You need specific XP x64
drivers and these may not be available. A VM is the way to go.



"waruta" <waruta@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:944E3D48-C6E9-4D4E-90CF-DEE5A04C58DB@microsoft.com...
> Hello All,
>
> Been searching the archives for a while and I still can't find the
> answer
> i'm looking for; when I installed my second 500 GB hard disk, I went to
> Disk
> Management and everything went smoothly except for the fact that I am only
> left with 465GB of space. I understand that I won't be able to use the
> full
> 500 gigs but losing 36gb seems a bit excessive to me. Are there any
> workarounds or did I do something wrong?
>
> Also , when installing certain devices such as a smart card reader or usb
> data link, they don't support the x64 version of Xp I'm running, and I
> can't
> get them to work, even if I try and install the vista drivers or install
> them
> to my x86 program file folders. Is there any way to force them to
> recognize
> the drivers or an alternative besides using a virtual machine to run these
> programs when I need them?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Waruta

John
Sun Mar 02 05:55:59 PST 2008

Make sure you check the version of the VM you use as all do not support USB

"Dominic Payer" <dominic@dcp.fsv.co.uk> wrote in message
news:876FE51B-38E1-4C81-A962-A0F918B55FBD@microsoft.com...
> Hard disk drive manufacturers assume that 1 GB equals to 1 billion (10^9)
> bytes, while 1 GB equals 1,073,741,824 (2^30) bytes.
>
> 500x10^9/1,073,741,824=465.66GB which is the available space you are
> seeing.
>
>
> Vista drivers are unlikely to work with XP x64. You need specific XP x64
> drivers and these may not be available. A VM is the way to go.
>
>
>
> "waruta" <waruta@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:944E3D48-C6E9-4D4E-90CF-DEE5A04C58DB@microsoft.com...
>> Hello All,
>>
>> Been searching the archives for a while and I still can't find the
>> answer
>> i'm looking for; when I installed my second 500 GB hard disk, I went to
>> Disk
>> Management and everything went smoothly except for the fact that I am
>> only
>> left with 465GB of space. I understand that I won't be able to use the
>> full
>> 500 gigs but losing 36gb seems a bit excessive to me. Are there any
>> workarounds or did I do something wrong?
>>
>> Also , when installing certain devices such as a smart card reader or usb
>> data link, they don't support the x64 version of Xp I'm running, and I
>> can't
>> get them to work, even if I try and install the vista drivers or install
>> them
>> to my x86 program file folders. Is there any way to force them to
>> recognize
>> the drivers or an alternative besides using a virtual machine to run
>> these
>> programs when I need them?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Waruta
>