Recognizing true size of a Disk (WNT)

[zdruid]

Hello. I bought a PC 2 years ago and it came with an image CD with windows nt 4, totally configured for the hardware I had. However my hard disk failed and I replace it now. I then reintalled the operating system with image CD I had from the provider but it just recognize my new hard disk (80 GB) as one of 10 GB, which was the size of my previous hard disk. I now that I probably should reintall windows nt 4 from scratch but I just have this image CD and I wonder if, from windows nt 4, I can recognize the true size of my current hard disk.
Any help will be very appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

---zdruid

[BertImmenschuh]

There could be 2 hardware issues, one with the BIOS recognizing the full size of the drive and the other possibility is a size-limiting jumper on the drive itself.

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[zdruid]

The BIOS recognizes correctly the size of the drive because it is shown at the PC startup. However it is windows nt which wrongly recognizes the size of the disk because it has been installed from an image which had a smaller disk. So I need windows nt 4 to check again the disk and get the new geometry from the bios if that is possible when windows is already installed.

[BertImmenschuh]

I'd be willing to wager that when booting to a WinME boot disk [www.bootdisk.com] and running FDISK from the A: prompt it will show a partition of the same size as the drive the image was made from. Sounds as if the image restoration created a partition the same as the original.

You may need to get a partitioning software such as Partition Commander [www.v-com.com] to resize the C: partition to the full size of the drive.

<font color=blue>Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.</font color=blue> <font color=green>Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.</font color=green>