Stupid Hard Drive

[Friedchicken100]

I just bought a new seagate 160GB hard drive. I installed and formatted it with the software it came with. Then I used the system restore cd for the computer to load back the OS. I set the size of the hard drive to 137GB when I formatted it with the seagate software but then the restore did its own partitioning to c and d. Now when i look at the properties of the hard drives they show only 15 GB each. What gives?

[GroundZero3]

looks like the restore image were made with 15 gigs in mind?

what os did it load?

if you right click on the C drive, does it see the whole drive?

[Friedchicken100]

windoes xp home

[Friedchicken100]

the OS was on the system recovery cds

[rex028]

a recovery CD does not install a OS in a new hard drive ... isn't it ???

[GroundZero3]

right click on my computer, click manage, then click disk management. see if it sees the whole drive

[Friedchicken100]

well i can't do it right now but what are you getting to? I have a suspicion that it might be the jumper.

[GroundZero3]

i just want to see if disk management sees the entire hard drive

[RedWasp]

I am suspicious too man! Jumpers are crazy! One time I had a jumper that fell off and I didn't even know it until the "no hard drive" error kept popping up. I hate jumpers! I even hate jump starting cars. It sucks!

[Bill in SD, CA]

Do what GroundZero3 says.

Bill

[RedWasp]

Hey GroundZero3 is there a GroundZero, GroundZero1, and GroundZero2 in these forums? Just wondering about the significance of 3. Is your name about the 9/11 GroundZero? It is a cool name man! I like it.

[GroundZero3]

how about pming the question to me and not getting off topic in a thread about wanting help

[pphalan]

After you used the hard drives software you should have used your XP disk to format the drive, then use the restore disk

[Xtreeme]

If its a image disc, (restore cd set-no XP seperate) I see no way around it. Some OEM's do this. If its not-you should be able to format in windows setup as mentioned above and get it back. But again if its a image of the origianl HDD you have to request the "real" cd from them. Cause they cant deny you the windows you payed for. Least I dont think they can. My buddy had a fit at compquack for that and they did send him the disc in the end of it all-free. His drive died, replaced with a larger one and was screwed hence why he was upset.

[Bill in SD, CA]

Don't you just hate it when you never know the outcome of a thread?



Bill

[Xtreeme]

Soooooooooooooooo. What happend?

[davemurgatroyd]

Another alternative

Once you have "restored the disk using your restore CD use a "safe" partitioning program such as "Partition Magic" or "Partition Commander" and you should be able to resize the 15 GB partitions (or create new partitions) to fill the disk. Your original hard disk sounds to have been a 30GB

[Friedchicken100]

i figured it out the system recovery cds dont recognize ntfs formatted partitions so the recovery did its own fat32 format i fixed it but thanks guys

[Xtreeme]

cool- its working again. Was just curious.