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Be for i start i appologise for my spelling and my lack of understanding of pc's
just in stalled a 20gig H/D to my pc {running xp pro sp2 } but when the pc finds it shows it as a 10g any ideas simple terms please not to bright at this end.
Unrelated problem mmc cards for phones any body now how to unlock when it asks for pass word
parkerd - mmc cards which have been passworded need the password. If the card can be read in another reader, and depending on the make/model, you may be able to overwrite the password.
When you installed this drive, can you tell me exactly what you did?
Did you see the jumper settings?
Was this drive an addition to what you have or a replacement?
Have you looked in disk management? It may only have a 10gig partition made, rather than the full 20. To get to disk management, right click my computer, select manage.
the drive is an addition looked in disk management it is showing as a partition 9.32(healthy) how do i get it to registar as a 20g
If there is nothing on the disk you want, you can right click on the 9.32(healthy) and delete partition. Then you can right click again and create a partition which is the full 20 gig. You then format it and you can then use it.
If there is stuff on the disk, copy it off first. Destroying and recreating a partition takes the data with it using disk management.
deleted partition know shows as 9.32 unalicated will not let me change it 20g any more sugestions
Does it show unused space? It has a green stripe - unallocated space is brown stripe look at disk 1 on this pic to see what I mean
What is the make/model of the hard drive?
no unused space shown driver type maxtor 6E020L0
Does it show any partition information... you need to delete the primary partition on that drive.
How is the drive hooked up? What position is the jumper in?
No Partition Info , Drive Has No Jumper In At Present Tried It On Master Tried It On Slave Same Results Has No Jumper. Has For Deleting Primary Partition For This Drive Dont Now How Even If I Could Find It.
OK so this is probably a jumper problem/cable position problem
Is it on the secondary or the primary ide?
Do you have another drive on the same cable?
3rd Time of asking
How exactly did you install this drive?
Other thought - this drive is likely to be second hand... have you run the maxtor powermax to test this drive?
Yes Have Another Driver On Same Cable.
Pluged It In And Let Xp Find It Then Formated
No Havent Run Maxtor Powermax Didnt Even Now About It
Is the drive that is already there the one with your operating system on it?
Is the drive that was already there on the end of the cable or the middle?
Run powermax, test the drive and see if it sees the full 20 gigabytes.
yes the first driver is my operating systems .
the second driver is in the middle of the ribbon.
power max reads it as 20g
If there is nothing on the drive, then run the "low level format" or "zero fill drive" in powermax. This will remove all data on the drive, once done, windows should see it as 20 gig unallocated.
did that no change still shows 10
Can you post a screenshot of the disk management? If powermax sees 20 and you did the zero fillm, then there should be nothing at all on the disk. Are you running powermax from windows or from a startup disk?
OK, if you look in my thread (HDD Utils) You should find a utility there that will automatically partion the drive to the full size for you (Ontrack Disk Manager) - it's a free download and fits on a floppy disc.
Give that a try :)