Hard drive problem...help...

rgbivens · 09-19-2003, 05:51 AM

hey guys, uh...basically I took another HD out of another one of my computers and it is the exact same HD that I have in my machine, a wester digital 7200 80 Gig HD so I poped it in, I had formated it before i put it in on my other machine. So when I get her booted up i go to see if its working right and it says that the total size is 7.86 Gig...which is a loss of like 72.14 Gig and i'm not too happy about that.

I tried formatting it again in XP and all it did was changed it from FAT32 to NTFS.....

anybody know what I can do? I'm a pretty computer savy guy when it comes to hardware but i don't know everything...

abbe · 09-19-2003, 09:40 AM

whats the spec of the old comp ?? its not to old ?? some older motherb dosent suport that large disks.

have you tryed removing the partition and creating a new one ??

And always when asking this kind of question always try to post the specs about the comp becaus it makes it mutch more easy for the ones trying to help you to maby figureing out the problem [righton]

Rock on

ranger72 · 10-01-2003, 10:45 PM

Hi There rgbivens

for all you will ever need to know about western digital harddrives go to http://www.wdc.com/en/index.asp?Language=en and then click on the support button to go to technical tutorials and forums.....ask your questions there and lurk for excellent information

ranger72

Erik · 10-01-2003, 11:36 PM

try resetting it to fat 32 and run a win98 install diskette

c

fdisk /mbr

this resets the master boot record

then fdisk to delete all possible partitions and logical drives

you can then see what happens...

personally I don't like those huge drives that much as they are, well...huge...
only good for video work (or downloading music and video...)

lindaw · 10-02-2003, 12:23 PM

Need to check your motherboard/bios compats. I ran into that with one of my machines and it did not see the entire drive since the motherboard's bios would not go any higher than 40 gig so that is all it would see.