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by peege

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After I installed a 40gig hdd. it only shows a 20gig hdd.My OS is Win. XP Home.What do I do?MY E- Mail IWalker@ec.rr.com

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by dmiles

First check the BIOS version of your motherboard,this can be seen during the post when you see the startup screen.(upper left corner)
Then check the bios manufacturer and see if their is a flash biso update for the current bios,which you will want to read before using the flash bios.

Flash the bios,by using the read me file and the flash.exe file you down load to floppy from manufacturer site

by cg it

did you partition it into 2 each 20 GB sections? or 1 each 20GB and the rest free space?

by opatzg9

Have you done anything to set up the drive for use yet? Fdisk is the utility used to start the setup of partitions on the drive. Bring it up and check out your drive specs in there. Is this a 1 or 2 Physical drive system now? If its a 1 and xp is already loaded to it you can probably just add an extended partition for the other 20 gig with little to no effort. Little more info please. Good luck!

by an_it_guy

Check the Disk Management under the Computer Management to verify the total size of the HDD shown. If it shows 40GB, then the possibilities are that the rest 20GB might not have been formatted to be accessible.
You can find Computer Management by "Right-Clicking" on My Computer Icon on the Desktop.
Cheers.

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