Problems with new drive

[snowdogg187]

I am installing a new drive, so I unplugged my other drive with the os and hooked the new one up as the master.
and I came upon this problem

I fdisked and created a main partition with 100% of the size.
it made that and I restarted.
Now after I formatted, it is only like 33 gigs, it should be close to 80.
any ideas to check out??
thanks
JoSh

 

[Mitzi]

What size does you BIOS report when it detects the drive on bootup? Did FDISK see the drives correct size?

What filesystem (FAT32/NTFS) did you try to format the drive with?

Perhaps you need a BIOS update, what motherboard/drive are you using?

 

[snowdogg187]

Fdisk showed the drive as 32253 MB at startup
I imagine I used fat32 cause I didn't change anything at all.
and My MOBO is an Asus A7V133, and I've never updated the bios.

I've had an 45 gig WD drive installed just before this one though.

Thanks, I'm off to werk

 

[snowdogg187]

anyone???