80gig HD shows up as less than 30

[genericuser100]

i brought a western digital 80gig hd because the one before died, when i installed xp, the screen where you select the partition shows up as only 32200mb or something like that, when i start windows i see my C: drive is abotu 30gigs

do i have to update bios?, did i set up the jumpers wrong?, did western digital screw me over?

help, thanks

 

[RealBlackStuff]

More likely you got a 30GB HD.
How old is your PC?
Did you set LBA in the harddisk parameters in BIOS?

 

[Raiden]

Yeah maybe you did the jumpers wrong

 

[Midgetmax]

is this jason? Muhlestien?
if it is....hey, if its not, then sorry i dont know how to fix it

 

[Samstoned]

what OS are you running
xp go to
start
settings
control panel
administrative tools
manage
disk management
should see your drive here
aslo can look under system

 

[genericuser100]

i currently have it as the primary slave, that shouldnt be a problem

in the bootup i see LBA ATA 100 33822 RAM at bank, i go to my hd properties and i see partition as master boot record, do u guys see any problems?

also in the bios for HDD SMART compatibility, do i select disabled or enabled?

yah i see it it says 31.84gigs capacity and 29.84gigs of free space

im running xp