Tech Support Forum - View Single Post - [SOLVED] windows only detects 1/10th of my hdd space

moneys2 · 02-23-2008, 12:42 AM

Here's my brother's computer:

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/p...330092&lang=en

I have installed a maxtor 6l300r0 hdd into my brother's old computer:

http://www.superwarehouse.com/Maxtor...300R0/p/623088

I have set it to be a slave on the primary IDE channel and set the jumpers to be slave. Bios and windows xp pro sp2 detect the drive and I've formatted to NTFS. Problem is, I bought a 300 GB drive and only 31.4 GIGS are available in disk manager. Any solutions to this problem? I've never heard of so much of a hdd just going to waste.

02-23-2008, 12:42 AM	#1 (permalink)
moneys2 Registered User Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 6 OS: windows xp pro sp2	[SOLVED] windows only detects 1/10th of my hdd space Here's my brother's computer: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/p...330092&lang=en I have installed a maxtor 6l300r0 hdd into my brother's old computer: http://www.superwarehouse.com/Maxtor...300R0/p/623088 I have set it to be a slave on the primary IDE channel and set the jumpers to be slave. Bios and windows xp pro sp2 detect the drive and I've formatted to NTFS. Problem is, I bought a 300 GB drive and only 31.4 GIGS are available in disk manager. Any solutions to this problem? I've never heard of so much of a hdd just going to waste.