160 gb drive in old system

[pbaumgardner-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org (Paul Baumgardner)]

On 5/19/07, Rusty <rusty-5uWQAetEYB7jY0qkv+UzOQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Windos machines that I have put 160 gb drives in I had always just put
> the driver into windows and had no problem, but I can not seem to find a
> similar driver for my old linux machine.  I put the drive in and gentoo only
> sees 61 or so gb.  I was going to put freenas on the system and I would
> really like to be able to use all the space on it.  Any ideas or similar
> problems?  By the way, I tried to boot gparted on there and that would not
> even come up all the way.

When you say Gentoo only sees 61GB, you mean you booted from a Gentoo
Live CD and it only sees that much space?

What kind of hard drive is it?  What does fdisk -l show you?  Is this
a clean drive, or do you already have NTFS partitions on it?

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