I have a 20 GB IBM hard drive here that I am trying to put into my computer. When I boot my computer and go into the bios, it tells me that the drive is 20GB. When i go into windows to format it it only reports it as 2GB Is there somethign wrong with the hard drive or windows?
what was it partitioned as because if used dos for dos6 series & not dos for win9x than will get a 2 gig partition. remove all partitions & make a new 1 than format the hd.
the harddrive shows up in windows as 2gb. how would i go about getting into the partitions/mbr to clear it?
read this link tho for seagate still the same for other drives. http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/howto/install_xp_disk_mgmt.html
i actually played around with that when i first installed it and it only showed the whole drive as 2GB
what most likely happened is that one or more of the disks in the hard drive have failed. A hard disk is made of a few discs similar to a cd-disc changer. One or more of the disks have failed. If you format the drive, you will notice the new label name for the drive will be like "dsk2 vol 1."
i don't think the drive failed as it would have gave you an error message when posting. go thru that link i provided & post back the results.
