Help please, did I get ripped off?

[fataIerror]

I bought a 45 gb IBM 75GXP drive from a trader on here for my new computer and when I go to My computer and then right click on C and go to properties it says 1.99 GB available, 570mb used and 1.44 is available, what's going on?

 

[CrazyRaider]

it was most likely a used one

 

[jaybert]

whats the sticker say on the drive? 2nd, fdisk it, and make sure all space is put into that partition

 

[shadowscavenger]

could be partioned that way. use fdisk

 

[fataIerror]

Yeah I did fdisk it to start with I will try again though

 

[beb]

use the software that comes with them to set it up....sounds like it needs a program to help it recognize the full capacity of the drive

 

[Maineiac]

does your bios detect the drive correctly?

when you fdisk'd it did you enable LBA for
large disk support?

if you didnt then under FAT16 you cannot create
a partition greater than 2GB which is where you
are at now.

 

[kenhubbs]

drive could be formatted in ntfs or something. try that

 

[edowado]

Are you running in Windows 95? Windows 95 only supports 2 GB HDDS. So, you'd have to have like 20 of them However, try reformatting and installing using the included IBM disket partition, etc. Good Luck!
Edward

 

[bigcfromcinci]

this should prolly be over in:

Tech support

Good luck to you !!!!

 

[iam4u2nv]

I had a similar problem a while back with a drive that was too large for my system board to use. I found out later from the system board maker that the board had a limit in size but it could use a larger drive with a bios flash.

 

[zzzz]

fdisked with fat16 maybe?

 

[lotust]

i bet its ntfs file system

 

[fataIerror]

Yes was NTFS and I was installing it on ME, thanks for all your help.