New 80 gb HD only showing 8 gb

[Guest]

I recently installed a second HD in my computor (less than 2 year old P4 2.8
ghz machine, running XP Pro. Orginal drive 40 gb. When I look at "My
Computor" and select properties for this drive it only displays 8 gb capacity
instead of 80 gb capacity. I know this is not a hardware forum but can anyone
help or advise a forum that I can go to.

Thanks

 

[Jim]

I recently installed a second HD in my computor (less than 2 year old P4
2.8
ghz machine, running XP Pro. Orginal drive 40 gb. When I look at "My
Computor" and select properties for this drive it only displays 8 gb
capacity
instead of 80 gb capacity. I know this is not a hardware forum but can
anyone
help or advise a forum that I can go to.

Thanks

What does the disk manufacturer's diagnostic program show?
Jim

 

[DL]

What does Disk Management show?

 

[steam3801]

I recently installed a second HD in my computor (less than 2 year old P4 2.8
ghz machine, running XP Pro. Orginal drive 40 gb. When I look at "My
Computor" and select properties for this drive it only displays 8 gb capacity
instead of 80 gb capacity. I know this is not a hardware forum but can anyone
help or advise a forum that I can go to.

1) Format of disk - FAT32 or NTFS?
2) WindowsXP SP2 installed?

 

[Guest]

Thanks to all for the replies, I have tried to re istall and now it is
showing 31.4 gb capacity. The format is NTFS, SP2 is installed. It has me
baffelled.

 

[JS]

Use Windows Disk Management tool, to display the total size (forget the
partition information)?
On the bottom right it will show each disk (disk0, disk1) and the total
size.
Jim

 

[Guest]

Enter your BIOS, what does it report? Update your BIOS. If these are done,
then the question was already answered by JIM.

Later