New HDD-Disk Managment -Drive sixe is displayed as less???
Hi All,

Just been out and purchased a 250GB PATA HHD to use as a slave.

Fitted the new drive as normal and booted the PC.

Located the drive in Disk Management, Right clicked the DISK 0 which was the new unallocated drive, and clicked initialize,

The drive is showing as 31.49GB Unallocated,

As the drive has not been formatted as yet i thought this would be the reason why,

Right clicked the 31.49GB Unallocated, selected new partition and the "wizard" will only allow a maximum of 31GB drive partition.

As this is a 250 gb drive, i need this to be larger, ideally 250 GB before format.

Please can you advise how i go about formatting the drive and increasing the size??

In the CMOS the drive is showing as 250GB.

Your help will be much appreciated.

RickT