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I was given a Gateway M350WVN notebook and shortly after raising it from the dead (corrupted OS), the HDD it was (Toshiba) using failed, stone dead.
So I went to NewEgg looking for another IDE/ATA-6 notebook drive.
Seemed that the best deal (at the time) was a WD Scorpio blue 320Gb drive.
Not thinking there would be any issues I plugged it into my desktop to format it (speeding the process as my desktop is faster) then installed it in the laptop and used the optical drive to re-install the OS.
The OS (Win XP home SP3) went in smoothly but then was when the problem developed, I had set up the drive with a small (relative to the size of the drive) partition, 25Gb which is more than adequate for the OS, because I don't like the OS creating fragmentation in my data.
XP, AVG and my mail programs are all "dirty" programs and I prefer isolating them
when the problem began was when I tried to create a second partition
(via XP's "Disc Manager") for my data partition... and there was only
107Gb unallocated space.... Huh?
Trying to create a partition via my USB adapter (doing it with the HDD on my desktop) larger than 107Gb and the notebook won't boot, "unadressable volume"
So my 320gb drive is only recognized as ~130Gb
That is the background, now to the all too obvious queston:
What must I do to Get the full size of the drive recognized?
Presuming of course that it is possible. to do so...
Anyone have any ideas?
AD
So I went to NewEgg looking for another IDE/ATA-6 notebook drive.
Seemed that the best deal (at the time) was a WD Scorpio blue 320Gb drive.
Not thinking there would be any issues I plugged it into my desktop to format it (speeding the process as my desktop is faster) then installed it in the laptop and used the optical drive to re-install the OS.
The OS (Win XP home SP3) went in smoothly but then was when the problem developed, I had set up the drive with a small (relative to the size of the drive) partition, 25Gb which is more than adequate for the OS, because I don't like the OS creating fragmentation in my data.
XP, AVG and my mail programs are all "dirty" programs and I prefer isolating them
when the problem began was when I tried to create a second partition
(via XP's "Disc Manager") for my data partition... and there was only
107Gb unallocated space.... Huh?
Trying to create a partition via my USB adapter (doing it with the HDD on my desktop) larger than 107Gb and the notebook won't boot, "unadressable volume"
So my 320gb drive is only recognized as ~130Gb
That is the background, now to the all too obvious queston:
What must I do to Get the full size of the drive recognized?
Presuming of course that it is possible. to do so...
Anyone have any ideas?
AD