[amyreaney]

i have a 'my book' 1 TB drive. After a screw up I placed a disc image on the drive which overwrote the whole thing. Now it only shows up as a 37 GB drive (which is the exact size of the disc image). I cannot access the rest. I'm managing to get my files back via software but still dont know quite how to get it back to a 1TB Drive afterwards.

I've been to computer management (control panel) and it shows the drive as 37GB (Healthy Active) and 894GB unallocated.

Ideally I'd just like to wipe the lot and have one partition, but I dont know how to do that PROPERLY.

I know when I bought it, it didnt show 1TB as being available right from the start (if someone could also explain why that is I'd be grateful).

Many thanks.

[mctw]

drives never show at their full size, there was a thread on it a while back, ill see if i can find it for you.

Whats happened to your Hard drive is the partition has been resized. download this, you want the 'home' edition. when its installed, there will be a screen showing all your drives, their sizes and partitions. you simply click the right drive, and drag the coloured block to the full size. its pretty self explanatory.

If it was a disc image though, it might be a better idea to simply delete the partition and create a new one, but its up to you!

[mctw]

here we go, this is the thread that explains it well, thanks to serverguy!