HD reads only 10 gig on a 30 gig HD...any clues?

[SirChadwick]

Ok, I just installed windows xp and trasferred my files from my Western Digital 30 gig HD to a friends computer. After installing XP and trying to move the files back to my original HD from his computer, an error came up saying I was running out of space. It said maximum capacity around 10 gigs....what does this mean? I have 30, but it says that my drive is almost full. Someone out there know what I can do? I tried compressing, but no luck.

 

[SirChadwick]

Wait, maybe this will help. I just remember my friend saying he did partitioning. I guess in the BIOS or something...I'm not exactly the computer genius. So what does it take to free up the space or use the other 20 gigs?

 

[cholley]

if your friend partitioned properly, open my computer, you should see c: and d: as hard drives

 

[nihil]

use fdisk to view the partition table.

 

[daveshel]

Your motherboard cannot see a drive that large: its geometry is beyond the range your BIOS can use. You may be able to flash your BIOS to handle it, if not, you can use the drive overlay software (OnTrack Disk Manager or EZ-BIOS) to translate the drive's geometry into parameters that will work with your board.

 

[bradley10]

Yeah these guys had some good ideals.....

Problems:

Choice 1#. Your Mainboard Bios is out dated.....YOur BIOS may have flaShing option...taking it that you can find the software to update it on web somewhere.

Choice #2. Your Hard Drive was Partioned wrong by the FDISK.EXE located on your Computer BootDisk.

Stick in your boot Disk at start up, Get to a "A:/" prompt, Type ........ dir Your get alot of options...One of them will get you the Partion Table to viwe what you have...I cna't think right now...of the details...


Lato,

Bradley