hard drive size is wong

**sniper** · 12th February 2004

from windows XP help

Using Disk ManagementYou might need to be logged on as an administrator or a member of the Administrators group in order to perform some tasks.

Disk Management is a system utility for managing hard disks and the partitions or volumes that they contain. With Disk Management, you can initialize new disks, create volumes, and format volumes with the FAT, FAT32, or NTFS file systems. Disk Management enables you to perform most disk-related tasks without shutting down your computer; most configuration changes take effect immediately.

To open Disk Management
Open Computer Management (Local).
In the console tree, click Disk Management.
Notes

To open Computer Management, click Start, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel. Click Performance and Maintenance, click Administrative Tools, and then double-click Computer Management.
For information about using Disk Management, in Computer Management, click Help on the Action menu.
For more information, click Related Topics.

**{film_man}** · 12th February 2004

how do i chage the partition from 40 to 120

**tomtx500** · 12th February 2004

try tacking out the other hdd that works and replacing it with the one that does'nt work set the jumper to master and use a boot disk at he a:/ promt type fdisk and 4 if there is a partition press esc then delete partition primary or logic then primary and set full capicity.Then in windows go into my computer click on the hard drive (that the 120 gig) and right select click format and press start.

**{film_man}** · 12th February 2004

still cant get it to change :-(

**sniper** · 12th February 2004

did a search on this forum for hard disk and came up with this

http://digital-forums.com/showthread...ight=hard+disk

i'm sure you'll let us know .... i am buying a 2nd HD tomorrow so i am very interested

**{film_man}** · 13th February 2004

Originally Posted by sniper

did a search on this forum for hard disk and came up with this

http://digital-forums.com/showthread...ight=hard+disk

i'm sure you'll let us know .... i am buying a 2nd HD tomorrow so i am very interested

thxs dude gave that a go but the drive still show up as the same size

BM · 13th February 2004

It might be that your motherboard doesnt support a drive of this size. Is it an old motherboard? Check to see if there is a BIOS update that will enable it to see a drive of this size.

**Shotgunjim** · 13th February 2004

Originally Posted by BitchMonkey

It might be that your motherboard doesnt support a drive of this size. Is it an old motherboard? Check to see if there is a BIOS update that will enable it to see a drive of this size.

Good point... that happened to me, BIOS wouldnt recognise anything about 30G, upgraded BIOS and all was good... that board was about 3 years old and hadnt been upgraded since install

:oops

**Realist** · 13th February 2004

He already has a 80GB master so if it was the case of the bios not recognising it as a 120, it should say at lease 80GB.

He is doing something wrong.

Filmman - Were are you in South Wales?

**TwoPlAnKs** · 13th February 2004

give us full info all at once

so your running windows xp?
hard drive as ntfs or fat32?
you got all the jumpers correct as per instructions?
you have updated bios?
what is the date on the bios update?
you have tried booting to a dos bootdisk and typing d: and the drive isnt there?
does dos detect your c: drive?
have you read the writing on the disk itself? it doesnt say 30gig on it does it? if so you have the wrong one
you sure that it really is comming up as 30gig and that it isnt 30 gig used to 30gig free or anything to that effect?

TwoSheds

**{film_man}** · 13th February 2004

Originally Posted by The Realist

He already has a 80GB master so if it was the case of the bios not recognising it as a 120, it should say at lease 80GB.

He is doing something wrong.

Filmman - Were are you in South Wales?

i am in swansea m8

**Realist** · 13th February 2004

If you was closer I could of sorted it for you.

**{film_man}** · 13th February 2004

i am looking at the drive in partition msgic and ther are two sets of markers on the main drive.

the markers are for the 2 gig boot and the 1024 cylinder

on the main drive they are close but on the 120 gig drive they are far apart

i also think there is a 1024 cylinder problem how can i solve this

**sniper** · 14th February 2004

what make / model of HD is it , if you go to manufacturers website they may have a program to sort it out for you , eg maxtor have something called maxblast

**{film_man}** · 14th February 2004

ya i have sorted the problem out got a boot disk of the web site :-)

thank you to everone that helped me out

**secretagent** · 22nd February 2004

Originally Posted by {film_man}

not got a copy of win 98 :-(

hello mate i have a copy of 98 if it will help u/mail me brushstrokes17@hotmail.com//
its here if you want it ..ps will post to u..no prob,,cheers /johnny