ive recently installed an 80 gig second hard drive although the drive has bbeen installed and has been reccocnised. This drive is not showing any memory.
How do i set the partition settings on this drive?
thanks Graham

Control Panel - Admin Tools - Computer Management, select
Disk Management and look lower right for the graphic of the drive..
R-click in its 'Unallocated space' and take 'Create partition'.

thanks for you help and reply i have followed the path stated but cant find the option to create partition the drive is showing just 32mb
graham

so the 80 gig drive has gone from 0 to 32mb? how is it listed? i.e. healthy? system? file system?

what type of drive is it? is it configured as a slave on the same cable as the OS hard drive? did you use any third party software to install it? if not; did XP react to finding new hardware?

was the drive ever formatted?

Hello the slave drive is on the same cable as the original drive,
XP found new hard ware i had to run my recovery disc to restart my pc when the drive was first installed and i believe this is where the 32mb came from ive since formated this drive and still only shows a capacity of 32mb i didnt use any 3rd party software it looks like i need to go in the bios to set everything up something i was hoping to avoid.
graham

sorry for just more questions but what kind of drive is it?

did it come with software?

why did you have to run your recovery disk when the drive was installed?

what do you plan to setup in the bios?

Hello again
the drive is a samsung there was no software with the drive.
yes i did have to run the recovery disc when the drive was installed
Graham

You will find Samsung software here:

http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=287

You can make a bootable floppy to diagnose.

I am still curious why you had to run a recovery disk when you installed the drive.

Are you sure the jumpers are set right?

has the drive been in another PC I had a simalar problem when I put a 10GB slave it only reckonised 7MB cant remember what I did..........
I think I right clicke on the drive and choose format

I used file system NTFS and allocation unit size as 4096 bytes and it came up with 9.55GB

you could try that

Probably an old Bios that limits HDD size to max 32GB ?
Worth checking for Bios updates i think