T41P Ultrabay 60G HD Format Problems

[stratosurfer]

All,
I purchased a new Ultrabay HD adapter for the T41P and in it put the old 60G HD from my wife's child-destroyed T40 and rebooted. When the machine first came up after a few more reboots it saw the Ultrabay drive, but apparently not all the partitions for it says it is only a 7.7 g drive. I went through the process of having XP format the Ultrabay drive which it did, but again says it is only a 7.7 GB drive. When I hit properties on the drive now it shows 7.7 G available and 40GB of used space.
I next tried to find the drive DOS perform a format there, but I'm a little rusty on my DOS commands and DOS was asking me questions about the D: volume I could not answer.
Obviously I have formatted this disk incorrectly, or XP can't do it right. Can DOS do it if so can someone give me the proper commands to get the full partition up to the 52 usable I believe?
Any help appreciated.
Thanks

[archer6]

One option that I might suggest is to remove your mainbay hard drive and install the drive you wish to reformat in its place. Then use " gparted" to format it. If you're not familiar with it, gparted is a free open source partitioning utility that you can download and burn to disc. There's great online instructions & its easy. I would post the link for you but I'm currently on my BlackBerry. Google gparted and it will be right there. I find gparted to be the best in my opinion. I like it even better than Partition Magic or some of the others.
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Cheers...
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[sktn77a]

Go into "Computer Management", "Storage Devices" and set up the drive from there.

[stratosurfer]

Go into "Computer Management", "Storage Devices" and set up the drive from there.

This is where I went and it would only partition to 7.7g usable.

[RealBlackStuff]

Did you first delete any existing partition(s) on that HD?

[stratosurfer]

I did try and delete the partition, but after this was done and then a new partition added, it still showed the same results: 7.7 G usable, 45 G in use.
I will delete again and try again.

[stratosurfer]

Did you first delete any existing partition(s) on that HD?

RealBlackStuff
I deleted the partition and it looks like I'm in business: thanks so much for the data and your time.
Thanks