120gb HDD only 32gb showing

**dirtydog** · 06-02-2010, 02:47 AM

I have been sorting out my hard drives, so now I'm going thru a 120gb sata drive, connect it up and its showing it as a 32gb hard drive, look in properties and 80 odd gb isn't allocated, cleaned it all out, reformated and it's still only 32gb, how do I reallocate the 80 odd gb, my mind has gone blank, I know its really simple and starts from the start button but damn sure I can't remember.

**britmaveric** · 06-02-2010, 02:58 AM

Go to disk management and select the 80gb that's not partitioned. Right click and make an active partition. (assign a drive letter)

**dirtydog** · 06-02-2010, 03:22 AM

Start, control panel, administrative tools, computer management, active partition and assign letter, that sorted it out, its just formatting now

I couldn't for the life of me remember how to do it.

**britmaveric** · 06-02-2010, 03:23 AM

^no worries easy to forget if you hadnt done it in a while.

**dirtydog** · 06-02-2010, 04:22 AM

Ok 4 more hard drives left to sort out, bit of a suprise seeing that that hard drive is 5 years old, just noticed the sticky garauntee says 2010, looked closer and its a 5 year warranty, anyway tomorrow I might try sticking an older drive in the freezer if I can't get it to work tonight, see whether the freezer trick is myth or not

**lysander** · 06-02-2010, 04:29 AM

You can also right click on 'My Computer' either on the desktop or the start menu and choose 'Manage' then 'Disk Management'

**dirtydog** · 06-02-2010, 04:33 AM

^Yep that works, thats the way I've done it before, straight into where you need to be.

**dirtydog** · 06-02-2010, 04:50 AM

Latest HDD allocation movie starring lysander

I bet youtube must hate me for all this crap I upload to them

**lysander** · 06-02-2010, 05:23 AM

Is this my 15 minutes of fame?

**baldrick** · 06-02-2010, 05:36 AM

start -> run -> diskmgmt.msc

but if you really want to check a drive

download ubcd , burn it to disc , and boot from the cd

disc tool , diagnostics , and choose your manuf tool

**dirtydog** · 06-02-2010, 06:16 AM

^^Well 27 seconds of it anyway

Right first 40gb ide drive is in the freezer, think it's 40gb anyway, this one stopped working and then took a bit of a fall, tried it on 2 pcs and it whines and screams but wont show or work, been sitting on the desk for a year or 2 and is now chilling out in minus 18 degrees in a 7/11 plastic bag, lets see how it likes that, do or die time.

**Muadib** · 06-02-2010, 06:28 AM

I bet youtube must hate me for all this crap I upload to them

No worse than this...

DaffyDuck · 06-02-2010, 07:13 AM

Originally Posted by dirtydog

see whether the freezer trick is myth or not

It doies - place the HD into a freezer bag, along with a dessicating bag, before you do.

After you remove it, you have an effective 5-10 minutes of effective operating time.

Originally Posted by dirtydog

Start, control panel, administrative tools, computer management, active partition and assign letter, that sorted it out, its just formatting now

I couldn't for the life of me remember how to do it.

Why? It seems terribly intuitive.

**baldrick** · 07-02-2010, 04:39 AM

Originally Posted by dirtydog

tried it on 2 pcs and it whines and screams but wont show or work,

does it show up on BIOS at all ? does it actually spin , what do you hear when you listen to it with a screwdriver stethoscope ?

**Camel Toe** · 07-02-2010, 05:24 AM

You got it?

There is a good, I think free, utility called, Partition Magic. I works really well. Maybe I got it from here: MajorGeeks.com - Download Freeware and Shareware Computer Utilities. (for next time).

**dirtydog** · 07-02-2010, 08:17 PM

^^I didn't check in the bios I don't think, but I reckon it does spin due to all the noise it makes, should think it's pretty cool by now so shall try it out tonight

**baldrick** · 08-02-2010, 07:02 AM

if it is seen in BIOS , boot with a UBCD disk and use the manuf tool to query it

**dirtydog** · 08-02-2010, 04:11 PM

So I've now got 3 sata drives all up and working in this pc, the frozen ide drive is dead, made a tiny sound when I first turned the pc on, wouldn't show and after 5 minutes was covered in moisture, now I'm left with 2 ide drives to experiment with, one is quite new but comes up with bad sectors, think that was a bad os installation, the other doesn't show on bios or anything

**harrybarracuda** · 09-02-2010, 06:20 PM

Create a bootable Cd from one of these two .iso files (using IMGBurn).

Boot it with the drives plugged in and see what you get.

DistroWatch.com: Parted Magic

Or maybe even this:

DistroWatch.com: SystemRescueCd

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