Only 2 Gigs....

[be1498]

I just put an old 8.4 GB IBM Deskstar IDE drive in my son's 900MB Duron and tried to put Win XP Pro on it. Windows and my hardware recognize this as a 2.0 GB drive, and I don't have room for much besides the OS now, which keeps my son from playing Diablo 2. This drive was originally formatted under Windows 95. Can anyone help me format this drive to its original capacity?

 

[GregMal]

Take your Win9* emergency disk and bootup with the floppy.
Use fdisk to remove all of the partitions......This will erase all info on the HD also.
Now you have to use a later version (than Win95) to Fdisk the HD.
You can use Win98-WinMe emergency floppy to Fdisk.
It will ask you if you want to use large partitions (fat32) say yes.
Partion, format c: /s....then install the OS.
Now this may vary when installing 2000 or XP as you may wish to use
the ntfs file system........Greg

 

[khtm]

Use Partition Magic. It should recognize the full size of the HD. From there you can delete/add/resize partitions.

-khtm-