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

J

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

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R

Rich Barry

Jason, rt click on MyComputer>select Manage>Disk Management. From there, you
may be able to see the remainder of the
Drive as Unallocated Space. Or, you may just have to rt click and select a
Drive letter for it.
 

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