Hi All,
I inherited a drive and thought it to be clean, formatted NTFS and
loaded XP from my retired PC. I always believed the drive to be about
40G. Last night I rescued another good drive that I knew to be 80G
and
so copied all required to the new drive. On examining the older drive
discovered it to be "WD Caviar SE 80 GB EIDE Hard Drives
( WD800JB )".
My only reason to change the drive was because of the capacity
increase!
I used Disk Management but still show 40G.
How can I recover the remaining Capacity?

On Sep 14, 1:20 pm, Ansu <a...@broadvox.net> wrote:
> Hi All,
> I inherited a drive and thought it to be clean, formatted NTFS and
> loaded XP from my retired PC. I always believed the drive to be about
> 40G. Last night I rescued another good drive that I knew to be 80G
> and
> so copied all required to the new drive. On examining the older drive
> discovered it to be "WD Caviar SE 80 GB EIDE Hard Drives
> ( WD800JB )".
> My only reason to change the drive was because of the capacity
> increase!
> I used Disk Management but still show 40G.
> How can I recover the remaining Capacity?

You might need to locate a partitioning utility like Partition Magic,
in order to take a complete look at all types of partitions. XP Disk
Managment "seems" to have a problem looking at partitions that might
be "flagged" as hidden.

Also, with Partition Magic, you can change the partition size, without
needing to delete the "previous" partition(s).

I already tried using Partition Magic but still shows half the
capacity! No other except a very small used by XP close to 8mb
partition.

On Sep 14, 2:02 pm, Ansu <a...@broadvox.net> wrote:
> I already tried using Partition Magic but still shows half the
> capacity! No other except a very small used by XP close to 8mb
> partition.

Then, try Western Digital drive test tools (found on their web site.)
The drive might be "beyond" hope or just mis-labeled.

On Sep 14, 3:08 pm, smlunatick <yves...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sep 14, 2:02 pm, Ansu <a...@broadvox.net> wrote:
>
> > I already tried using Partition Magic but still shows half the
> > capacity! No other except a very small used by XP close to 8mb
> > partition.
>
> Then, try Western Digital drive test tools (found on their web site.)
> The drive might be "beyond" hope or just mis-labeled.

Last night and today morning tried various things with Western Digital
tools but with no success. Finally I used Segate utility and did
almost the same but one different it allowed me to successfully update
LBA values and that did the trick!
Now the drive shows full capacity and already in use!