New hard drive

[redben56]

I had to install a new hard drive in my emachine it had a 200 gig and i replaced it with a WD 320 gig. I finally got windows to load put it only sees about 127 gigs.
how do i open the rest of it?

 

[fimbles]

Did you format and partition the drive before you installed windows?

 

[redben56]

yes i think

when windows loaded it went through a format and partion. the new drive is a WD320 and the software that came with it said i needed to fix it in window dos?

 

[detrox]

Open disk management tools from administration panel and check if there isn't any unassigned space. If there is... simply make a next partition from it. That's it.

 

[LookinAround]

Very first thing:
>> Have you apply all the Windows updates
>> If you're running XP make sure you have all the Hardware updates applied as well

Once you complete above, then i'd worry about the disk drive space if a problem

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btw.. only seeing 127GB sounds like on OLD XP problem. (don't know what you;re running or how old the version) so do all the updates first

 

[raybay]

You may be using an eMachine Windows version that is Service Pack 1. Service Pack one will only go to 137 GB raw before formatting... If you use Service Pack 2 or 3, you can go up to at least 1.5 GB.
A lot of the eMachines shipped with WXPH SP 1, because the largest drive they sold was 80 GB...
Often, but not always, you can use a regular Windows XP Home disk with Service Pack 2 and use the product ID from your eMachines case sticker.