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Tommo247 · 03-20-2008, 03:08 PM

hi every one hows are you all?

well i have a small problem with my newly made external hard drive.

i bought a IDE caddy from icy box it's great. and used my old hard disk from my broken laptop. it's a 20gb hd but when i pluged it in to my laptop it only shows 5 gb!

i've cleaned it up formated it every thing i can think of but still only 5 gb!!!

how can i get it to realize it's a 20gb not a 5 gb hard drive!!

when it was in my old laptop it was brill no problems what so ever i can't plug it the old laptop as the mobo decided that enough was enough and went to the internet in the sky.
and my new one is sata drive.

so there is the problem can you help?

03-20-2008, 03:08 PM	#1 (permalink)
Tommo247 Registered User Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: York Posts: 9 OS: 64x Windows 7 Ultimate	[SOLVED] Home made external hard disk problem! hi every one hows are you all? well i have a small problem with my newly made external hard drive. i bought a IDE caddy from icy box it's great. and used my old hard disk from my broken laptop. it's a 20gb hd but when i pluged it in to my laptop it only shows 5 gb! i've cleaned it up formated it every thing i can think of but still only 5 gb!!! how can i get it to realize it's a 20gb not a 5 gb hard drive!! when it was in my old laptop it was brill no problems what so ever i can't plug it the old laptop as the mobo decided that enough was enough and went to the internet in the sky. and my new one is sata drive. so there is the problem can you help?