Wheres me other 100gig gone?

[pieman109]

I've just installed an ide, 250g samsung spinpoint, and in windows theres only 127gig capacity showing. I know that the jumper is set to master so thats ok.
Anyone here know how I can get me other 100gig back, cheers.

 

[pieman109]

rightclick My Computer and select Manage, then go to Disk Management on the left and click that.
What does it say on the right?

O/S is windoze XP pro. I've had a look in disc management and it reports "NTFS" with 127.99 gig hard drive size.
I've installed bucket loads of 160g-200g hard drives before now and never had a prob like this. I'm gonna try reformatting in dos using a win98 boot floppy as this is how I normally do it. This time I just loaded the O/S straight onto the hard drive and let windows partition and format it.
I'll post back with the results in a coupla hours.

 

[pieman109]

Ok, went into Dos, ran "FDISK", partitioned, formatted, installed windows, now showing 243gig capacity, so I've basically got me 100 gig back
It appears it was down to letting windows partition and format that gave the probs, I'll stick to the original way from here on in. thanks for the help guys.