My new 160gb hard drive thinks it's a 40gb drive!!!

I just built a new system and with the help of many members here, I was able to do it quite easily.

I used EaseUs to transfer everything from my 40gb IDE hard drive to my new 160GB SATA hard drive.

I was checking out the system performance and properties and noticed that the hard drive is reading as a 40gb?

Any suggestions?

 

I'm not familiar with the software your using but it sounds like you have a 40gig partition with the rest of the drive un-formatted, do you have a copy of partition magic?

 

This sounds like a good guess to me. Easeus will let you resize (increase the size of) the partition or you can just create a second data partition in XP's Administrative Tools>Computer Management>Disk Management.

Open Easeus and check the size of the C: partition vs. the size of the disk(in the title of the partition graph) to verify that this is the case.