need help with 80-g drive showing up as 32-g

[alidabiri]

hi everyone,
i have intalled a western digital 80-g hard drive on a new machine. however it's showing up as a 32-g drive. the other problem is that my cd drive (creative 52x as drive esomehow is retaining the file directory from the previous cd. for example, i can take the cd out and go to explorer and list e:'s content, and shows all the files. and if i put another cd in, it shows the files from previous cd. is my pc going senile? or what?

 

[paulstorey]

Regarding the hard drive, have you checked the jumper configuration as a lot of drives can be configured with a 32Gb clip (this is done with the jumpers) which limits the drive to 32Gb. Also how is the cd drive configured?

 

[rwnancar]

1. Can your computer map large drives? you may need a boot overlay program. Should of come with the drive.
2. had this same problem with a CD. Turned out CD was bad. Problem fixed when i put in a new drive.