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Thanks for the suggestion, I think I will get rid of the old drive and make the 40gb one the master. Even with the misreading of the size, I still have 30gb to use. I might try to reformat or get a new drive, I'm not sure yet.

I'm not going to trash the drive, I was just thinking that the one I have now might be bad. But thank you for the suggestion, I'll try to reformat and delete the partitions on the drive. If that doesn't work, I guess I'll have to contact Western Digital to try and get a new drive.

I've formatted the drive already (NTFS) when reinstalling WIndows XP. The only thing that I can think is that the drive is bad or something like that.

Yes I have and it only sees one partition which is 31.4gb total and the primary partiton.

To answer the formatting question, the drive is formatted NTFS as is my smaller, 4gb drive. On the disk management, there is only one partition, which is the 31.4gb one. If XP can only create 32gb fat partitons, then it seems like my drive is formatted fat32. However, I know that I have them...

I just got my bios updated a few months ago, along with most of the computer. I am now running a P4 1.6Ghz with 512mb of DDR ram. Xp has recognized the drive to capacity before, but after all the reinstalls I have had to do to fix other problems, it stopped seeing all of the drive after one on...

I have two hard drives installed on my computer, a Maxtor 4GB and a Western Digital 40GB. Windows XP will only recognize my 40GB drive as 31.4GB total. I have tried reinstalling XP and this does not solve the problem. What can I do to get Windows XP (Home Edition) to recognize the full size...