Drive Space

[Pete]

I bought a secondhand 20Gb ide Hard Drive which my
BIOS "sees" as 20Gb. However when booted up in Windows
2000Prof shows as a 8.9Gb drive.Even deleting/recreating
partition and reformatting does not produce more space.I
dual boot with NT4 and this operating system "sees" the
full 20Gb. Any ideas?

 

[R. C. White]

Hi, Pete.

Are you using Win2K's Disk Management? This is far more capable than
WinNT4's Disk Manager. The name change is very subtle, but the capabilities
are much greater in the Win2K snapin. It's buried beneath lots of
mouse-clicks and even many power users have not yet found Disk Management.
One quick way is to type at the Run prompt: diskmgmt.msc

In Disk Management, you can change the View to suit yourself; I like it
full-screen, with the Volume List at the top and Graphical View at the
bottom. And the Help file here explains a lot!

Disk Management takes over the functions formerly handled in MS-DOS by the
FDISK and Format.exe utilities, and in WinNT4 by Device Manager. Use it to
delete all partitions on that HD and create one or more new ones, assign
drive letters, and format them.

Does Disk Management see your whole 20 GB HD?

RC

 

[Guest]

Hi there R C,
Thanks for that, but I have used the DisK Management
Facility in Win2K I agree it is better than the NT4
version but it only sees the 8 Gb as well!
Im beginning to think the drive is defective and on the
verge of ditching it!!

Pete