Only 40 gb out of 80gb harddisk detected

[senthilsks]

hi..
i recently had a new 80GB hard disk installed on my computer.but the problem is that only 40GB is being detected. here is the necessary info about my comp
Microsoft windows professional XP sp2
Intel pentium3 processor 551 MHz
RAM 256 MB
BIOS Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG
Hard disk Seagate 80GB
Please help me out friends....i am waiting for your reply.

 

[Hefemeister]

how much space is it showing in disk management?

 

[senthilsks]

how much space is it showing in disk management?

it is showing 31.49 GB under basic disc 0

 

[Hefemeister]

Is there a 2nd unpartitioned space on the drive?

 

[senthilsks]

Is there a 2nd unpartitioned space on the drive?

how do i see whether there is any unpartitioned space??

 

[senthilsks]

Is there a 2nd unpartitioned space on the drive?

in the disk manager, both C and D volumes are being shown as partitioned, nothing else there.

 

[advancedgeek]

just check in the bios and you can see the actual hard drive capacity. so even if you had unpartitioned space or multiple partitions it will still come up with 1 single hard drive.

 

[senthilsks]

Previously my hard disk was set to primary slave...i did the readjustment of the jumper to master as suggested, but then BIOS did not detect any IDE drives.
May be it is a problem with my BIOS...will it be resolved on upgrading the BIOS?
if so are there any sites where i can get it upgraded for free?
Once again, thank you for your efforts...

 

[Apokalipse]

Sometimes, there's a jumper that will limit the drive size to 32GB

 

[senthilsks]

Sometimes, there's a jumper that will limit the drive size to 32GB

so what am i supposed to do now???