80gb HDD showing up as 40 on man mini G4

[Ih8reno]

Hey guys

Found a Mac mini G4 1.25ghz with wifi and Bluetooth. Decided to upgrade the ram to 1 gb and change the 40gb hdd to an extra 80gb I had lying around. Problem is the mac shows its a 40gb hdd. I know it's not that small as it's even clearly printed on the drive. Is there anything I can do to reclaim all the space?

Thanks!

 

[Intell]

What does it look like in Disk Utility?

 

[Ih8reno]

This

 

[havokalien]

disk utility

use disk utility to erase and remove possible partitions.

 

[Ih8reno]

Only has 1 partition which is the main os

 

[weckart]

That Fujitsu description MHT2040AH - does that match the label on the disk because the last two figures give the capacity?

 

[Intell]

What does the partition tab look like?

 

[Ih8reno]

 

[Intell]

That hard drive is only 40GB.

 

[Altemose]

Hey guys

Found a Mac mini G4 1.25ghz with wifi and Bluetooth. Decided to upgrade the ram to 1 gb and change the 40gb hdd to an extra 80gb I had lying around. Problem is the mac shows its a 40gb hdd. I know it's not that small as it's even clearly printed on the drive. Is there anything I can do to reclaim all the space?

Thanks!

Perhaps you misread the label. The drive is 40 GB with 8 MB of cache. If I recall correctly, the cache and storage info is right next to each other and is easily misread (I speak from experience).