Trying to format 250 g external drive (laptop hd) but only getting 31g

So I am trying to get my external laptop drive to show that is 250 g but every time i format it only 31g show up....
I havn't set anything that i know of ....
So some help would be great
Kodiak

richnrockville said:

Not to ask the obvious, but you are formatting the drive as ntfs?

Yes I am trying to format in "NTFS"

also,what does your disk management screen show about the drive.
Rich

So the disk mang. tells me that there is 200 g unalocated. How would i change this...




Sorry it took so long to respond was doing exams....
Kodiak

You should be able to extend the H partition to encompass that 200.88 GB of unallocated space using Disk Management .

Highlight the H partition and then look at menu choices, maybe from a right click.

Look for "extend volume" or words to that effect.

Kari said:

If you are trying to format a 31 GB HD, it can only give you the same 31 GB. Using Disk Management, delete the 31 GB partition first so that you can see one 250 GB unallocated space, then create a 250 GB partition and format that.

Kari

That work thanx for the help

ignatzatsonic said:

You should be able to extend the H partition to encompass that 200.88 GB of unallocated space using Disk Management .

Highlight the H partition and then look at menu choices, maybe from a right click.

Look for "extend volume" or words to that effect.

Thanx this also worked

Thanx all for your time

Happy holidays