Upgrading hard drive

Hey guys. I have upgraded my CF-28 hard drive (800 MHz) from a 30 gb toshiba 4200 rpm drive to a 100 gb WD 7200 hard drive. I used a 2.5 inch usb 2.0 external HD case, and a usb 2.0 PCMCIA card. I followed the (limited) instructions with the cloning program (ghost 12.0). I changed out the HD in the caddy to the 100 gb one, and started windows. In the bios, it shows a 96 gb HD. But when I go to my computer on windows, it only shows a 26 gb HD. What gives?? I know that I didnt select the button "resize drive to fill unallocated space" that is one choice. Anyone have any luck with Ghost? It doesnt sound too good from some of the forums I have read...Thanks

 

The BIOS may not support larger hard drives. I know my main computer (Mac G4 desktop) will not support drives over 120 (Gotta partition them). Newer computers don't have that limitation however.

You may need to partition the drive to use the extra space. However, there might be other tricks I don't know about (I've been a Mac guy since 1987, the toughbook is my second Windows based computer).

 

if ur hard drive is showing up in bios i doubt its a problem with the bios caus if it was over the limit the bios wouldnt read it????
so what i think it is some thing to do with the ghost image you made some thing some where must have gone wrong,
have you got any windows cd lying around, if you have then boot of cd and if it goes all the way to the option telling you too pick a partition of where you want to load windows you can see from there if the whole drive is showing

 

oh another thing,
try this first go in to control panel, then click on Administrative Tools and then click on computer management, and then storage and then disk management and once the box opens you can see if the entire drive is showing........

 

I have a dumb question... Why not install the hard drive and then reinstall Windows? Why put possibly corrupted files on to a new hard drive? You may not get all the performance and you end up having problems like you are having now. After installing you can copy over what you need by hooking up the old drive to the USB.

I never install a new hard drive without a fresh install... To me it just doesn't make sense.

 

That worked DJ, it shows that I have a primary partition of 28 GB, and unallocated of 65.2 GB. What advantages do partitions have, if any. I am only working with XP, no other Operating systems. And can I change the partition to encompass the whole 100 GB? Toughbook, I have a XP disk, but I remember it took me 2-3 hours to reinstall the last time. I defragged, chkdsk'd, and copied the drive (although it only held 7 GB of info) and it only took about 8 minutes...But I may have to do it anyways...

 

2-3hrs to install windows
what are you doing with it??????????
it should only take 35/45mins for a freah install........
best bet do a fresh install like toughbook said.........
all drivers are on the forum, posted by toughbook.......

 

I may have mis-spoke on that one. The IDE controller may have a limit on drive size (Why it may only display 96GB in the BIOS). Honestly, the largest drive I've ever owned is 80GB (I've got two in my G4, one in my homebuilt PC, and now one in my toughbook), so I haven't hit a drive size limit since the early 90's.

 

i have hit my limit afew times when upgrading computers/laptops....etc....
what normaly happens is the hard drive wont show up,
then you have to go and seach the web for bios updates!!!!!!!