awake Posted July 13, 2005 Report Share Posted July 13, 2005 Put a new 40GB drive in an HP omnibook xe4100 laptop. Bios sees it as 40GB as does every HDD utility prog I view it with. But when I come to install WinXP Pro (from a brand new CD) it thinks it's only 6GB.I have tried the following, amongst others ...Writing new MBR using windows & other utilsCreating 40GB NTFS partition using windows & other utilsRemoving all partition/mbr infoRecreating just mbrRecreating partition.Basically I tried all I can think of and still Windows install only 'sees' a 6GB drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
korgg Posted July 13, 2005 Report Share Posted July 13, 2005 Try to enter the BIOS and reset it to the defaults values...Or if there is the posibility, redetect your IDE devices...But I'm afraid that you might need a BIOS update for that... These are the original specs: ???SpecificationsIntel Celeron 1200 MHZHD 20 Gig2 Modules of 256 MB (144-pin SDRAM SO-DIMM) MemoryWindows XP Home EditionService Pack 2???? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
korgg Posted July 13, 2005 Report Share Posted July 13, 2005 If you can try to get your hands on a Knoppix Linux CD and boot it ... It runs off the cd only and does not mess with your hdd. See if the hdd still shows at 6 GB ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted July 14, 2005 Report Share Posted July 14, 2005 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...kb;en-us;897086? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awake Posted July 14, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 14, 2005 Thanks to all for the replies.The bios correctly reports the hdd as 40GB, though I have already tried reseting to bios defaults.I have booted from a diag CD with several disk utilities, all of which report the disk as 40GB.Regardless of how many times I reboot, deleting/defining partitions, etc windows setup always reports the drive as 6GB.The laptop has now done this with two different hdd's now - the new one and the original, so am tempted to think it's some kind of hardware problem with the laptop itself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homecomputeraid Posted July 15, 2005 Report Share Posted July 15, 2005 I saw your link Pwilliner:http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...kb;en-us;897086? but it seems unlikely that a laptop HDD was part of a RAID Array.Awake, have you tried booting to a Windows 98 Boot Disk and seeing what fdisk sees? You can make a 98 boot disk from downloads at:http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm.If fdisk sees proper size, but XP won't, you might check for HDD and/or ChipSet Drivers for your PC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted July 15, 2005 Report Share Posted July 15, 2005 Also check the jumpers on the drive itself... Sometimes they have what is known as a "Cap Limit" which limits the amount of the drive that is used. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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