Hi there, I've got a big problem with the hardrive at my girlfriends house. They have installed a 40 gig hardrive, but the computer only shows 2 gigs of space.
Anyone know what's going on?

Also.. I tried giving them my old computer, but when I try to install windows on my old hardrive, it tells me it cannot find FDISK. Same thing HAPPENS when I put their old hardrive in my comp..

The first problem is all I really need to know for now, but if anyone knows about the second one, please feel free to help  is there stuff installed on this 40gig HDD?

Or is it Brand new?


R0SSWas it a new hard drive or a used one? If used, did it used to work OK? Is it read as 2 gig in the BIOS/setup screens? What type of drive? The more details, the better!

What operating system are we talking and how are you trying to do this?I do believe it was used, though I'm unable to ask them right now. They're running Windows 2000 Pro and the HD is a Samsung SP0411N. It is only SHOWING 2Gigs of available space everywhere I can see.

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me  If it was formatted FAT16, then the max partition is 2 gig. You will need to FDISk and repartition.Looks like they have used fdisk and forgotten to 'Enable large drive support.'

Can't you USE the 2000 CD to re-partition and FULL format the drive?

Where is our resident 2000 GURU in this moment of need?  Thanks guys, I'll give it a try now.What happened?