External USB HD shows much less space..!!

[Locksley O. Young]

Installed an External 80G HD to USB port and only seeing 1.1G as the
capacity.
What happened?
This is an IBM2292-21U running WinXP Home SP2. main HD is 40G.

How do I get my 80G ??

Thanks.
Locksley

 

[Ron Sommer]

Have you formatted the drive?

 

[Plato]

Installed an External 80G HD to USB port and only seeing 1.1G as the
capacity.
What happened?

Partition and format.

 

[Frank]

Installed an External 80G HD to USB port and only seeing 1.1G as the
capacity.
What happened?
This is an IBM2292-21U running WinXP Home SP2. main HD is 40G.

How do I get my 80G ??

Thanks.
Locksley

The first thing that I would do is try it with another PC. Most USB drives
come
partitioned and formatted with FAT32 so they can be used with Windows, Linux
and Macs.

 

[Locksley O. Young]

Got some help from the Seagate FAQ website. Needed to use Windows XP
Disk Management to Intialize, Partition and Format.
Now OK.