Hi, can someone please help me? I recently got a second hand HD, I was told it was only a 30gb and has been formatted as such. When I looked at the label on the thing, turns out it's a 60gb. Is there anyway of opening up the remaining 30gb? I tried re-formatting the whole drive but it only recognises it as a 30. If you can help, please treat me as a thickie and use the big print instructions. Thanks

What brand Harddrive is it? I would try a low-level formatting utility. Low-level formatting writes 0's and 1's to the drive completely erasing everything. If it is a 60GB that will wipe out any partition that is preventing you from see the entire 60. Depending on the brand, you can go to their website and download the utility.

reformatting is only going to reformat the 30gb partition if it truly is a 60g then you could use fdisk to create another 30gb parition or use fdisk to delete the current 30g and make one 60g or if you have partition magic it would resize and all kind of goodies if you have xp then you should be able to go into start/settings/controlpanel/administrative tools/computer management click on disk management and it should show you some yummy info and actually it will let you create a partition out of the remaining space... hope this helps my2cents, aint much but sometimes it helps

Thanks for your replies, it's a Maxtor 6L060J3. I went to Maxtor's site and downloaded MaxBlast 3 which does nothing. I tried playing around in the Disk Management part of Admin Tools, still nothing. I downloaded and tried FDisk. FDisk will not let me change drives, there is no option 5. Is there anything I can do short of throwing this drive out the window and screaming?