Only Half Hard Drive showing...Please Help.

Gizmos_dad

I had to swap the hard drive on my PC. Have installed 80GB hard drive. However after install it is showing only 31.1GB.....The software I added has only taken 2GB.

Can anyone please help....

Many Thanx
GD

albertross_2

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309000

dickibobboy

The format of the hard drive will probably be Fat32 and needs converting. Im not sure if this will mean a full format and loss of your operating system but try this

start, run, type cmd and press enter. then type in


Convert C: /FS:NTFS

(where C: is the letter of your harddrive)

Gizmos_dad

albertross wrote: »

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309000

Tried the above link, no good. Tells me how to format hd/delete/partition etc. But not what's happened to nearly 50GB of my Hard drive.

Many Thanx
GD

albertross_2

read the "How to view the properties of a basic volume" bit

Gizmos_dad

Just tried the above...It's telling me drive C is already NTFS
GD

superscaper

Gizmos_dad wrote: »

Just tried the above...It's telling me drive C is already NTFS
GD

What's the make and model of the hard drive.

albertross_2

it should also tell you if you have another 50Gig unused, as will this:

http://www.passmark.com/products/diskcheckup.htm

Gizmos_dad

superscaper wrote: »

What's the make and model of the hard drive.

It's Maxtor 4R080L0

crox

try looking in the computer manager (right click my computer then manage). then look in storage and disk management. see if there's any unpartioned hard disk space.

ormus

download the ultimate boot cd.
it has the maxtor hard disk utility on it. as well as other useful tools.