Hard drive capacity reads wrong

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Al June 2, 2000 at 10:10:41 Pacific

After replacing a hard drive...(4.3g to a 6.4g)
in My computer properties the hard drive capacity reads 1.99 capacity and only 777mb of free space.
It read the same thing on the old one. On start up it reads properly and I have set it in the BIOS. Any ideas?

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Vijay June 2, 2000 at 10:28:23 Pacific

Hi A1,
After replaced your HDD I think it was partitioned into three or four drives. In Mycomputer you may find the drives of your HDD. I think the remaining partitions (except 'primary') of your HDD are not formated. If these drives are not formatted we can't get their capacity. So, you may need to format the drives.
To Format the drives
-> Right click on the Extended drive
-> select Format option
Dont't format your primary partition ( C Drive)
Vijay

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dan June 2, 2000 at 11:59:04 Pacific

You might have boot up with a boot disk and use a utility called fdisk. From there you can look at your hard drive and see what is allocated for what. It may be that only a 1.99 gb partition is set up. Older dos drives and such could only see 2 gig. See if that helps

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Shuuken June 2, 2000 at 16:35:45 Pacific

I agree with vijay & dan. Run fdisk and check if the correct size is reported. If its not check the bios setting for primary HD. The value may be set incorrectly or may need to be set to auto.

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Yi June 2, 2000 at 22:38:25 Pacific

try Partition magic and it'll show you the unused space~and then you can choose to create a new partition from it or put the free space under C drive as well

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