New Hard Drive in XP Not Showing Correct GB Size in Properties

[Jason Saffer]

Hi all,

I've just replace my 160gig hard drive with a 400 gig hard drive. The BIOS
is accurately showing that it's a 400 gig drive. But when I take a look at
the drive's properties from Windows XP's Explorer, it shows the PRIOR hard
drive's total space used/free, not the new one I installed.

After I installed the drive, formatted it and partitioned it, I restored an
image of the previous C drive installation from my second internal hard
drive. I don't know if that has something to do with it or not.

Any way to have Windows XP recognize the real size of the drive in the
properties display?

Thanks very much!

....Jason
(e-mail address removed)

 

[eric_d_green]

Go to Start, Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Computer Management.
In computer management go to Storage, Disk Management. You should see
the hard drives you have installed on your computer. I would be
willing to bet that the new hard drive shows 240GB of free space. If
you partition that it should become available in windows.

 

[Rock]

Hi all,

I've just replace my 160gig hard drive with a 400 gig hard drive. The BIOS
is accurately showing that it's a 400 gig drive. But when I take a look at
the drive's properties from Windows XP's Explorer, it shows the PRIOR hard
drive's total space used/free, not the new one I installed.

After I installed the drive, formatted it and partitioned it, I restored an
image of the previous C drive installation from my second internal hard
drive. I don't know if that has something to do with it or not.

Any way to have Windows XP recognize the real size of the drive in the
properties display?

Thanks very much!

...Jason
(e-mail address removed)

Right click My Computer | Manage. Expand storage then go to Disk
Management. In the right pane look at the drive. Does is show
unpartitioned free space? There is no way in XP to non destructively
add this space to the currently allocated space. You can partition and
use that space as another volume or use something like BootIt NG from
Terabyte Unlimited which will allow you to add that currently
unallocated space to the current volume nondestructively. BootIt NG has
a 30 day full featured trial offer. Symantec's Partition Magic also
does this kind of work but is costly.

 

[Jonny]

Windows explorer does not show unpartitioned space.

 

[Mike Fields]

Start -> Run -> diskmgmt.msc
will bring up the disk manager. You will see your drive there
and what is partitioned/used and what is still free.

mikey