HDD Reformatting

[Shibathedog]

Ok so i added this second 80GB HDD to my PC that i bought used. I put it in my PC and it says its 27GB, but on the giant sticker thing on the actual HDD it clearly says 80.0GB, So i think hmm must be partitioned or something, so i try a format F: (thats what the letter for the drive is) and it still says only 27GB. Is there a way to completley erase it so i can get all 80GBs out of it?

 

(thanks alot! and BTW my full time return to the forums is soon so much freakin work around here >_< )

[Gryph]

Where does it only show 27 gb? In Windows? If that's so then only 27 gb worth might be partitioned and set up. Go to Administrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Storage -> Disk Management. Check to see if it says 80 gb there and if only 27 gb of it partitioned.

 

In the BIOS what does it show as?

[Shibathedog]

it says 27GB in the "my computer" window. Ill try what you said and post later

[Shibathedog]

i tried going into that disk management thing and it says there is only 16MB that is unallocated

[Gryph]

Hmm...at the bottom where it says Disk 0, Disk 1, etc. does it show the drive as a 27 gb one or 80 gb? Better yet, take a pic of it and post it here.

[Weirdy]

on the "my computer", are you looking in properties? btw, you have to initialize the hd then format it. I recently put in a 80gb myself. It took about 15 mins to format.

[Alpha]

It took could also be your motherboard doesn't support that big of a HD.

[Bobdrakke]

Hi Shibathedog

 

Like the rest said post a pic, if your motherboard doesn't support it try look for a bios update if it is still supported.

 

But from what you posted if its the second 80 harddrive you have installed it should work. Only other alternative is to try the harddrive on another computer to see if it's recognised at 80 gig

[Shibathedog]

I already tried the HDD in another PC.

 

See this HDD was in my friends old Dell PC and what they where doing was giving everyone 80GB HDDs and then just allowing you to use a certain amount of the space to save money and only have to order 1 kind of HDD (or at least thats my theory)

 

Anyway, in my friends Dell it was 27GB too

 

My master HDD is like 45GB on this PC, and my Slave HDD (This one) is supposed to be 80GB I have the latest BIOS but even the stock BIOS was supposed to support 180GB HDDs and the new one like 250 or something like that.

 

You want me to post a picture of the window that gryph said to go into?

[Gryph]

Yeah, post the pic, it would be helpful.

[PLasticSlug]

my 60 gb hard drive was saying the same thing, something like 15 gb or somthing... any way i just reformatted it and it went back to 60,

 

or you going to install windows on both hd's or you going to make it a slave, if your going to make it a slave just checks your pins and you can reformat it real easy through windows... right click on drive and format it there.