Not seeing full capacity

[kmmcdanie]

Hello,

I am upgrading a friends Compaq Presario with a new hard drive. Originally it came with a 15GB and I am installing a Western Digital ATA-100 40GB.

I updated the bios before starting to the most recent version provided by Compaq. I am using the new cable that came with the drive and not the one left from the old drive.

I Ghosted all info from old drive to the new and installed the new drive as the master. Booted up fine and everything works. Problem is that Windows 98 only shows 30GB of the 40GB drive. I went into the bios and it shows and sees the full capacity.

What am I missing?

Thanks so much for your time!
Kathleen

 

[wolluf]

Did you create any partitions on the disk before you ghosted it? Did Ghost create a 30GB partition when doing the copy? You say 98 only shows 30GB - is that in My computer? Have you run fdisk to see if there is an unpartitioned space (c. 10GB) on the drive?

(you're certain POST scren is showing 40GB?)

 

[kmmcdanie]

I didn't create any partitions on the drive before I started. It is definitely possible that Ghost created that partition but why would it choose 30 and not the full 40 I wonder?

Yes it is in My Computer where I am seeing the 30GB.

In Fdisk there is not any unpartitioned space showing.

When I look in setup under system information it shows the main IDE drive as 40GB.

What I am trying now is using Western Digital Data Lifeguard (that came with the drive) to format the drive FIRST before I ghost. Do you think this will make any difference?

Thanks
Kathleen

 

[kmmcdanie]

OK I was able to find the issue. It was in fact Ghost that divided the drive. Compaq usually adds a D: drive called System_Sav and it was giving a full 10gb to that partition instead of the original 2GB. When ghosting a second time I noticed that I was able to type in how I wanted it divided and this should remedy the problem.

So it was all me not paying attention when it was ghosting in the first place.

Sorry to disturb but maybe my mistake will helps someone along the line!

Thank you for trying to help me out, it's greatly appreciated.

Kathleen