Help: Drives Seen As Smaller Than They Are

[Darren Harris]

For the last several weeks, I've been attempting to set up a PC with
two hard drives, and have run into a series of problems involving just
about every type of hardware I have among the several systems I have
here gathering dust. Whenever I hit a problem I can't solve I move on
to another system.

So basically, I've spent 50-60 man-hours on this, and have nothing to
show for it.

My latest problem involves the "C" drives on two separate PCs that "My
Computer" sees as having a capacity lower than what the actual drive
is.

In one system the "C"(which is 13Gigs) is now listed as having a 1.96
Gig capacity. The seconbd drive("D") hasn't is not seen by the system,
but that is another problem.

The PC I gave up on before this has the same problem with listing the
drives as lower than their capacity.

Any general advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.

 

[philo]

For the last several weeks, I've been attempting to set up a PC with
two hard drives, and have run into a series of problems involving just
about every type of hardware I have among the several systems I have
here gathering dust. Whenever I hit a problem I can't solve I move on
to another system.

So basically, I've spent 50-60 man-hours on this, and have nothing to
show for it.

My latest problem involves the "C" drives on two separate PCs that "My
Computer" sees as having a capacity lower than what the actual drive
is.

In one system the "C"(which is 13Gigs) is now listed as having a 1.96
Gig capacity. The seconbd drive("D") hasn't is not seen by the system,
but that is another problem.

The PC I gave up on before this has the same problem with listing the
drives as lower than their capacity.

Any general advice would be greatly appreciated.

1) The bios must correctly detect the drives...
if it does not you need to either update the bios...
use drive overlay software or else get a pci controller


2) when you use fdisk you must enable large drive support
or you will end up with fat16 which has a limit of 2 gigs per partition.
also, if the drives are over 64gigs you need to get the updated version of
fdisk.

you might want to go to www.bootdisk.com and get a winME bootdisk
the version of fdisk should work fine with any drive you have unless
it's over 137 gigs

 

[Darren Harris]

Installing a hard drive is way, way too complicated.

Nevertheless, I got a bigger hammer, and got everything working. It
only took about a half dozen reformats and installs.

In fact, every problem I've had, including the subsequent modem
installation, was solved by repeating just the steps over and over,
and over...

So this is how PC configuration problems are "fixed".

Thanks.

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.