i lost disk capicity after doing a zero fill, fdisk and format

[slingslingbinks]

now i'm really confused. i have a used hard drive, a western digital caviar 307AA, it's listed as a 30.7 gb in the lable and it's property's showed 28.6 gb. well i can live with that. os i zero filled the drive, (to erase the drive) fdisked, set the 1 partition active, formated it, scan disked it, and defraged the drive and now, when i slave it into my dell dimension 133p, running win 98 2nd, it's capicity is now 7.82gb. both drives are reconized, master is c drive, slave is d drive. i'v read that formating the drive doesn't remove all data and that's why i was recomended to zero fill the drive. i downloaded the western digital's, program data life guard v.10.0, to perform the zero fill and i also tested the drive and it check's out ok. any one have any input to my situation. tks sling

[juppy]

Not sure, but if that computer is old enough, the BIOS may not be able to recognize a drive that large. They'll only recognize up to like 8gig if I remember right. Might need a BIOS update though. Like I said, I'm not totally sure so you might wanta wait and see what some of the others have to say.

[reboot]

My guess is the Dell can only see that much. If it were put into a newer system, it would be fully recognized.

[slingslingbinks]

i also contacted western digital and there response was to follow the instructions listed at this link http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=567&p_created=1033492917 i used the data lifeguard software and there instructions and now my slave drive has 28.6 gb, where before it had 7.82gb. thank you juppy and reboot, for your help c-ya sling