new win2k install on large HD

[poncherelli2]

When installing win2k on a new 160gb HD, only 130gb is recognized. I formatted the drive and partitioned 60gb for C: and installed windows (left the other ~70GB alone). Now windows is installed on a 60GB partition, how can I get to those other 100GB I havent used and format them to make a D: drive?

 

[imported_itr]

windows disk management in administrative tools.

 

[imported_goku]

Um then you need to check to see if you not only have the latest Service Pack installed but you also have "enabled large drives" regstry entry. Check out maxtor's website for the little software utility to enable it but you FIRST need SP4!

 

[poncherelli2]

In disk management I tried to format the "unformatted" 100 or so GB twice, and both times it ended with a windows warning saying the drive did not format completely

 

[fuzzynavel]

You could always use FDISK in DOS to try to allocate the un-allocated space...then format from dos.......yo may have to format in windows again if you want to use NTFS as DOS will format as FAT16 (i think??)

 

[Random73421]

Get your chipset's latest IDE controller drivers. I recently got a Seagate 160GB and it took NVIDIA's newest Nforce drivers to recognize all of it.