I need help with hard drive.

[layitlo88]

I have put in a 40 gig hard drive and the pc says that there is only 5.75 gig able to be used. What can I do to get the rest of it back. I'm using win98 se can anyone help?

[teststrips]

it may not be being detected properly in your bios. I'd check two things.. that the IDE channel is set to AUTO and that you didn't put a jumper on the drive that would make it revert to compatibilty mode (which would reduce the size it reports to the bios)

[layitlo88]

The only jumper I used was to make it the master with a slave present. Is there any way to fix it without reformating it?

[Gecko]

Just to add to what teststrips said;
You might want to run f-disk on the drive just to make sure there are no NTFS or Linux partitions on there.
There could also be a large amount of unallocated space on the drive or an unreadable Extended partition.

[layitlo88]

Heres the catch. The hard drive is a brand new western digital 40 gig hd. It was still in its store bought packaging. I ran fdisk in the beginning and had to create a dos part in order to install 98 I had to enable large disk use also. I really do apprecate the help. I have never used 98 before until now. My other 3 pcs have xp home and pro.