Hard Drive

[Phil Burton]

Hi

 

can anyone help?

I currently own a Rock Extreme-770 and purchased a new 320GB hard drive for it, I then loaded a complete PC backup from my DVD's. Everything went well until I looked at my hard drive capacity which does not show my new partitioned 320GB hard drive (120GB/180GB) but shows my old hard drive configuration, do you know how to fix this or will I need to install a fresh copy of Windows and all my driver and software again?

 

Regards

 

 

Phil :)

[Guest Wolfeymole]

It sounds like you did not format the partitions Phil, even without wanting to install an OS you must format them.

[Seth]

Is the backup from a third party program, or the one that may have prompted you to make when you first received your PC?

 

Do you have service pack 2? Sp1 won't recognize that drive properly.

 

What does Disk Management show?

[Guest Wolfeymole]

I'm assuming like his OS statement details Seth that he's running Vista with SP1

[Seth]

Indeed...my oversight. TKS

 

Phil,

 

We still need to know about #1 and #3 of my previous post.

[Phil Burton]

Wolfeymole / Seth

 

Thanks for the prompt reply

I did format the Hard Drive and then partition it before connecting it up,

the backup was made through Windows backup on the original Hard Drive before I removed it from the laptop

I have since reloaded a fresh copy of Windows and it now shows a 320GB Hard Drive, I then tried to use my backup discs again only for the same problem to arise again. My 320GB Hard Drive again shows itself as the original 120GB Hard Drive? :confused:

 

I'm guessing I will need to reformat and do a fresh install / Drivers / software oh meeee!!

[Guest Wolfeymole]

Dump the old back up disks, reinstall the fresh copy of windows and make some new back up disks.

[Phil Burton]

Wolfeyman / Seth

 

thanks for your time and help:D

[Guest Wolfeymole]

Your welcome Phil, are you back up and running?