Installed a new Hard drive, but says it's HALF FULL!

[kh_s]

I bought a new hard drive. Set the new one to Primary Master, and the older one to primary slave. I booted it from the CD at first, installed windows (formatted the whol drive aswell during boot). Then after that I restarted and went into the BIOS again to set my BIOS boot priority back to default.

When I go to My Computer -> Right click on C:\ (which is the new primary master hard drive) -> Properties : It then says "122 GB used space, and 110 GB of free space." The new Harddrive is a Western Digital 250GB storage 7200 RPM and 8MB cache. When I go to drive D:\ properties (which is the older drive) the data is reading correctly (used/free space).

Jumper settings: New one in the middle (master), and the old one to slave. I even went into the BIOS, and it has detected them correctly.

What is this weird problem ? The drive is working right now, everything is fine. It's just that it says my HD space is 50% full LOL!

[Midknyte]

what version of windows did you install? if it's xp, you need at least a xp sp1 cd to recognize the drive properly.

[kh_s]

I installed windows XP professional. Later on I installed SP 2.

[Midknyte]

you need to have a slipstreamed SP1 or SP2 cd.

http://www.simplyguides.net/guides/using_autostreamer/using_autostreamer.shtml

[Sterling_Aug]

Time to make a slipstream CD and then do a complete format and reinstall of the new XP with SP2 installed.

[kh_s]

****?

Oh man I just spent like a full day re-downloading all my **** lol

[Sterling_Aug]

Thats great. Now you know how to do it again the second time. It shouldn't take as long then.

[kh_s]

Yeah I'm done burning the CD-image.

I am scared it might not work though, since I don't have Nero anymore, I had to use a free burner software.

Now lets hope it works...

[kh_s]

Okay, it says

"Cannot load DOS! Press any key to retry."

WTF ?

[Sterling_Aug]

You do not need DOS to install Windows.

What exactly did you burn?

[Midknyte]

sounds like you burned a coaster.

http://www.petri.co.il/how_to_write_iso_files_to_cd.htm

[kh_s]

Thanks again for pointing out that streamstream method. It worked, I burned the disc like 5 different times LOL.

I just didn't burn it properly. I think I was burning it as a plain data disc, lol.

You guys saved me 30 bucks BTW.