Not showing true size of hard drive

[Jake]

I am running XP and installed a WD 80GB Hard drive and
windows only shows it as being 32GB. How can I get it to
acknowledge that other space.

 

[S.Heenan]

I am running XP and installed a WD 80GB Hard drive and
windows only shows it as being 32GB. How can I get it to
acknowledge that other space.

If it's the only hard drive on the primary IDE channel, remove the jumper.
http://support.wdc.com/techinfo/general/jumpers.asp

The other issue may be that your BIOS does not support hard drives larger
than 32GB. If this is the case, a BIOS upgrade may solve it.

 

[Freda]

Have you tried proceeding and seeing if it in fact ends up as a 32 GB or
not.
If you get hold of Fdisk with a date of 2000 (not the 1998 version)
You may get a different result.
When I first attempted to fdisk the WDC 80gb I got told it was
only 10 gb but just split it into 5 partitions of relevant % and it
formattted to 80Gb in total after fdisking using the xx % of disk
NOT actual Gb for each partition.
Freda

 

[Bob Willard]

I am running XP and installed a WD 80GB Hard drive and
windows only shows it as being 32GB. How can I get it to
acknowledge that other space.

If you booted from the XP and then formatted the HD as FAT32
(instead of NTFS, the better choice in most cases), then you only
have a 32 GB partition. XP will only create a FAT32 part. up to
a max. of 32GB.

If that is how you caused the 32GB part., then I suggest formatting
that HD as NTFS if at all possible. If you really need a large
FAT32 part., then find a middle-aged copy of FDISK (really old FDISK
versions will limit you to even less than 32GB). Another option for
FAT32 is to create multiple parts, each less than 32GB; a PITA to
manage, but at least all of your HD is available.