getting Vista to recognize HD capacity

[just me]

Hello,
If I'm sending this question to the wrong NG, please just let me know where
I should go and I will. Thanks.
I've recently installed Vista Home Basic 64. My BIOS recognizes both 250 G
hard drives that are installed as a RAID stripe. Device Manager recognizes
my disk drives as an NVIDIA Stripe 465.76G. Windows Explorer only
recognizes my drive as a 24.4GB hard drive.
How can I change this? I didn't get the raid setup exactly the way I wanted
it, so I don't mind changing that. I do want to have the disk(s)
partitioned.
Thank you for any help. It is very frustrating not being able to load more
software until this is done.
Thanks,
Richard
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[Paul Smith]

If I'm sending this question to the wrong NG, please just let me know
where I should go and I will. Thanks.
I've recently installed Vista Home Basic 64. My BIOS recognizes both 250
G hard drives that are installed as a RAID stripe. Device Manager
recognizes my disk drives as an NVIDIA Stripe 465.76G. Windows Explorer
only recognizes my drive as a 24.4GB hard drive.
How can I change this? I didn't get the raid setup exactly the way I
wanted it, so I don't mind changing that. I do want to have the disk(s)
partitioned.
Thank you for any help. It is very frustrating not being able to load
more software until this is done.

This sounds you've only partitioned and formatted about 25GB of the drive.

Go to Control Panel -> System and Maintenance -> Administrative Tools ->
Computer Management -> Disk Management to get an overview of what is going
on with the disk.

From there you'll be able to make a new partition, which would show up as a
new drive aka D:. Or you may be able to extend your existing partition to
fill the entire disk, it depends how a few things are setup.

--
Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
http://www.dasmirnov.net/blog/
http://www.windowsresource.net/

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