Need help, installed out IDE drive -

Belloni

Belloni

Belloni

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Hi guys, running out of space on our main PC, but i can't be bothered to pay for another HDD at the moment, but i remembered we had an old HDD, which is IDE from an old HP PC we have.

I've put it in my PC and such, removed jumper on it (this makes it a slave correct?!) When i go into "My Computer", it comes up as "HP_Recovery (E:)" and is only 4.25GB?! 90% sure it was 160GB lol

What's wrong with it, has it become corrupt or something?

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Did you go to

Choose Start–>Control Panel to open Control Panel.
Click the System Maintenance link, and then click Administrative Tools to open the Administrative ools folder.
Click Computer Management to open the Computer Management window.
In the Computer Management pane, expand Storage, and then click Disk Management.
 
Right click on the My computer link in your Start Menu, then in the pop up menu, click on Manage... this will open the system tools window and you should see Disc Management listed near the bottom...

Give us a screenshot of it :)
 
I take it your computers existing drive is IDE, or you connected the old IDE drive to a cable that already has an IDE device connected?
If yes, could be a jumper conflict, try setting the jumper to Cable Select.
 
My main drive is SATA, and the old one is IDE. I've connected it straight to the motherboard with the cable it came with, nothing else is connected to it. Should i still set it to Cable Select?
 
Depends on what you want to do with the disk, but if you right click on each Partition of the disk, you will see the options availalble, for example, if you want the drive to be a single partition again, you right click and Delete each Partition, then when all deleted, right click and create a new partiton and format :)
 
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