hdd problem

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Nelly van Ool

i just got a 2,5"-hdd (Hitachi Travelstar) which i want to use as a mobile
disk to transfar data from work to home-pc and back. According to the label
on it it should be a 40GB-hdd but WinXP only shows 20GB. Any ideas how to
activate the other 20GB?

Thanks for any help in advance.
 
Nelly van Ool said:
i just got a 2,5"-hdd (Hitachi Travelstar) which i want to use as a mobile
disk to transfar data from work to home-pc and back. According to the label
on it it should be a 40GB-hdd but WinXP only shows 20GB. Any ideas how to
activate the other 20GB?

Thanks for any help in advance.
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Was it New or 2nd hand ?.
 
Nelly van Ool said:
2nd hand, about a year old.
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The reason I asked, was that it`s probably got a hidden partition
on it.
You might have to d\load the Hitachi hard drive tools,
and try to put it back to original. (if possible).
 
someone said:
The reason I asked, was that it`s probably got a hidden partition
on it.
You might have to d\load the Hitachi hard drive tools,
and try to put it back to original. (if possible).
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do you have a link for me?
 
Nelly van Ool said:
i just got a 2,5"-hdd (Hitachi Travelstar) which i want to use as a mobile
disk to transfar data from work to home-pc and back. According to the label
on it it should be a 40GB-hdd but WinXP only shows 20GB. Any ideas how to
activate the other 20GB?

Thanks for any help in advance.
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You might be able to use Windows to fix things.
Plug the drive into the system.
After Windows recognizes the drive exists try right clicking on "My
Computer" and choose "Manage" from the choices.

If the drive shows up as being 40GB here then you might be able to delete
all partitions on the drive, assuming there is more than one, and then
recreate a single partition using all available space. Format it after
it's created and you should have what you want.

If the drive shows up here as being a 20GB drive then it's time to
physically verify the drive model labels on the internet to make sure
someone did not swap a smaller sized drive into the case before you got it.
If that's not the problem then like others have suggested you will most
likely have to use the drive manufacturers programs to fix things.

If all you have is a laptop you could take the drive over to a computer shop
and have them run the factory program you downloaded using one of their test
machines.
 
Backup .....you bypassed the built in tools (XP)

Go to Control panel -> Adminitrative Tools -> Disk Manager

or right click My Computer and choose manage and the select Disk Manager in
the MMC

if it shows a 20 GB drive here then that is all you have (it may show 20 GB
formatted and 20 GB unformatted)
 
don said:
Backup .....you bypassed the built in tools (XP)

Go to Control panel -> Adminitrative Tools -> Disk Manager

or right click My Computer and choose manage and the select Disk Manager
in
the MMC

if it shows a 20 GB drive here then that is all you have (it may show 20
GB
formatted and 20 GB unformatted)
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Hallo,

problem is solved. Got "Hiren's Boot-CD" from a friend and booted my laptop
with it. There you can load USB-drivers. On this CD i also had Hitachi's
DriveFitnessTest-program, but this wasn't very useful. It's only to test
hdd's. But i found Hitachi's DriveFeatureTool on this CD, and with this
program you can change the capacity that the drive will show/use. Thanks for
all the help.
 
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