New memeber to this site. I have a new Toshiba Qosmio X305 X64 4gb ram running a single 200gig SATA hard drive i had one slot open for another hard drive so i added a WD scorpio 320gb SATA drive in the 2nd slot after installing it its only showing 73gb out of the 320. Does anybody know why vista is only showing 73gb when its a 320 gb drive. any help would be helpfull..

sounds like maybe you dident format and partition right?

well when i went into disk managment before i did anything thats all it showed was 73gb before i formated. i havent even partioned it yet

its sounds like you might have more then one partition on your hard drive and you only formatted one of the partitions you have to make sure you delete all the partitions and format as one check out this site maybe it help you out Repartition your hard disk on-the-fly with Windows Vista

here is a screen capture of the disk managment screen as far as i can tell there is no partion on this drive its been formated by window and WD drive utility. disk 1 is the drive im reffering to i havent created a simple volume on it yet

was there any jumpers on the harddrive? (a fuse like plastic peace that connects two pins together)?

and its not formatted right click on the unallocated space and format with NTFS

I don't think it's a problem with jumpers on the hard disk. This is a SATA hard disk which doesn't have jumpers. Even if it were an IDE disk, if the jumpers were incorrect it would not appear in disk management, like it does in the disk managment.JPG image.

You can't format unallocated space.
First you right click the space and create a new partition. Don't make it a dynamic drive or a logical drive, just a basic "primary partition" type, to avoid problems in the future. Then you format the new partition as NTFS and it will be given a drive letter.

yea no jumpers and i have formatted it like u said but still only shows 73gb. and this is a 320gb hard drive im lost with it starting to get me

here is current screen shot