second hard drive not fully recognized

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Hi,

I installed at 2nd HD 20 Gb Western Digital on my computer running XP Pro. It only recognizes 7 gig, I'm unable to use the 13 gig. Is there a fix for this.

 

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Check the website of your motherboard manufacturer for a BIOS update.

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"mark34" <markabber@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:92E2039B-BD45-4F9F-BE41-E1F1D73090EE@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
>
> I installed at 2nd HD 20 Gb Western Digital on my computer running XP Pro.
> It only recognizes 7 gig, I'm unable to use the 13 gig. Is there a fix
> for this.

 

[Duh]

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What size does the bios think it is? If the bios sees it as 20 gig then you
need to go into Disk Management and repartition and format.

"mark34" <markabber@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:92E2039B-BD45-4F9F-BE41-E1F1D73090EE@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
>
> I installed at 2nd HD 20 Gb Western Digital on my computer running XP Pro.
It only recognizes 7 gig, I'm unable to use the 13 gig. Is there a fix for
this.
>

 

[Guest]

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The funny thing is when I had XP w/o service pack 1 the entire drive was seen after installing xp sp1 only 7 gig is avaiable. I did reformat but to no avail. I even tried partion magic it sees the whole drive but it is unable to merge it with the 7 gig that's recognized.