Problem setting up 160g drive for older laptop

Yetiman

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Sep 9, 2007
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I have an older Dell laptop which had a 12 gig hard drive in it. I had a 160 gig Toshiba drive here and decided to install it. When I put the drive in and formatted it the Dell could only format it as an 80 gig which I assume is due to ald bios limitations.

I am trying to delete this partition or add another one so I can use the whole drive.

I am using a 'maxblast' software disk to try to do this with the drive connected to the IDE port on a newer desktop computer with an adapter.

How can I add another partition or delete the existing partition and add two partitions to it ?

Thanks !
 

NoelS

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Oct 5, 2007
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Yetiman,

If you're using Windows, you should be able to right click My Computer and click "manage," then click "Disk Management" to see what you're doing. That other 80 GB partition should be shown as unallocated. Just right click on that partition and create an active partition then format it. Now if you want to resize it to 160, you should be able to do that also.

Do you have Partition Magic? Use it. If not, it's a good program to have around to do just what you want to do...

Noel