Hard Drive Prob!

[King Icewind]

I have this hard drive, only 20 gig, that is going to be used in a old IBM pc. The IBM already has a hard drive (4 gigs, lol) that has Windows 2000 loaded on to it. The 4gig is set up as master and the 20 gig is set up as slave. The prob im having is the computer wont recognize the 20 gigs. Whenever i go to format the drive, i can only get 1.96 gigs.
The bios sees it has 20 but windows 2000 wont

~I had the 20 gig working at one time. It was partitioned but my dad wanted it unpartitoned to get the extra space. So i unpartitioned it, witch deleted everything, and then reformatted the drive. Windows saw the 20 gigs, but when i restarted it jumped to 1.96gig.

Please, give me some advice

 

[King Icewind]

Any help is appreciated

 

[King Icewind]

Any help..

 

[mrlithium]

format the drive in another computer ?

 

[xenotype]

try to repartition the drive, FDISK, or Disk Management (if thats what they call it in 2k)

 

[King Icewind]

ive repartioned, unpartioned, and then repartitioned many times..Ive repaired Windows 2000, and have completely reinstalled 2000...this is very upseting, lol

~King icewind~

 

[xenotype]

trash the drive, its not worth the hassle for 20 gigs.

 

[King Icewind]

xeno, not to be mean, but that doesnt help me much =P

 

[Monkey God]

2gb sounds like an old version of FAT limit
you are using NTFS yeah?