very weird HD problem

[jeffmoss26]

I got an old NT Voicemail PC from my dad's work. Amd 300 Mhz processor, not sure the kind of motherboard. It had 2 4 gig drives in it with a dupli disk. I swapped those for a 30gb Western Digital WD300. It booted into OS/2 which the older voicemails use. I wanted to reformat and install XP but it did not let me boot from CD for some reason. So I stuck the drive in my usb enclosure and plugged it into another computer. To my disbelief, the drive showed up as only 1.96 GB! I have no idea why it did this...it is very confusing to me.
After some time I was able to get it to boot my XP cd and installed it...but it still shows a 2GB hard drive. I am hoping someone has an idea as to why this occurred. Thanks!
Jeff

 

[Farva]

You can use GParted to extend that partition. It seems the drive is formatted as FAT. If you want to use XP, use NTFS, or even FAT32.