Help!! Harddrive/partition problem!

[Reebdoog]

Ok so my friend gave me his old computer, but he reformatted before he gave it to me. I dont have windows so I had to give it to another friend to install windows for me. But before I did that I checked bios, and it said the HD was ~6Gb. So today I got the computer from the friend with windows installed, but it is saying I have only 2 gb of space. Help please.

 

[Reebdoog]

also in "my computer" where it should say c:/ it says ms-dos_6 C:/

 

[Reebdoog]

Anyone?

 

[Reebdoog]

oh come on!!

 

[Reebdoog]

Ok the bios is seeing it as 6.5 gb, but i still have only c: and its 2 gb. please help

 

[Reebdoog]

*head explodes*

 

[redbeard1]

If it says msdos 6, it sounds like the drive has been formatted fat 16, which means it can only see 2 gig. If it was formatted fat 32 it would see the whole drive.

 

[SilentRunning]

Looks like your friend reformatted the drive using DOS which has a 2GB limit. Did he perhaps make more than one partition. Do you have a D: maybe.