I posted a message a while back about upgrading the 1Gb Hard drive in my Canon INNOVA BOOK 350CD, well I got a new used 4.32Gb drive to replace it. Now what I don't understand is that in the bios, DFT, Spinrite all see the drive as 4.32Gb but all partitioning programs only see the drive as 347Mb. I tryed running scandisk but it tells me it cannon examin the disk. Any ideas? Thanks. Sunset, expect This to be your last with Our vast return As Death is set At three sixes where hill-beacons burn Darkness, undress Your descending skirts yield a thirsting altar Blood-

I forgot to mention the new hard drive is made by IBM the model number is DKLA-24320 C H S 8944 15 63 Sunset, expect This to be your last with Our vast return As Death is set At three sixes where hill-beacons burn Darkness, undress Your descending skirts yield a thirsting altar Blood-

I don't know, need more info and you did not say what partition program you are using... But it sounds like your partition program is looking at the remaining free space on the disk as opposed to the entire disk itself. The other possibility is (judging by the size of the drive... it's an older one) that has a lot of bad clusters. BIOS will see the entire drive. but the various partitioning programs will only concern themselves with the USABLE clusters.

Seeing that your Processor is a CYrix, I would guess partition size is limited. You sure that's not 3277 MB???? (3.2 GB) WILL POST FOR FOOD.

I have used fdisk.exe, partion.exe, and Xfdisk.exe. There are currently no partitions an the drive. If it is full of bad sectors then when I do a low level format wouldnt that erace the information that shows which sectors is bad? Its not that, I have tryed using Intel DX4 and AMD DX4 chips all have same result. Sunset, expect This to be your last with Our vast return As Death is set At three sixes where hill-beacons burn Darkness, undress Your descending skirts yield a thirsting altar Blood-