160 GB hard drive, can only use 30.7 GB?

[Zett_Jukassa]

I have a fairly old external hard drive, that I'd like to start using to store larger files that I don't necessarily with me all the time (i.e. movies etc). I seem to remember having reformatted it at some point (its FAT32 right now) and somehow limiting the size available when I did that. Now when I go to re-format it though, I can still only select 30.7 GB as opposed to the full size. Is there any way I can fix this?

 

[Zett_Jukassa]

I solved it. I had been trying to reformat just by right clicking on the drive and selecting format. Should have been opening disk management and using that.

 

[johnb35]

You should also format it as ntfs unless you use other pc's that can only see fat32.