New Hard Drive

[Johnny Schmitt]

I have a Sony PCG-K23 laptop Pentium 4 with 512 MB ram, that has had it's
hard drive go bad. The HD in it was a Hitachi Travelstar 60 GB ATA.

I bought a new Western Digital hard drive: WD Scorpio 60 GB EIDE.

Are there any differences between an EIDE and ATA?

Upon loading XP from my disc I notice it says there is only 41 GB or so and
then asks for a partition. When I try to partition, nothing is partitioned.

Please help.

[Jerry]

And the tech support folks at Sony have said what?

"Johnny Schmitt" > wrote in message
et...
>I have a Sony PCG-K23 laptop Pentium 4 with 512 MB ram, that has had it's
>hard drive go bad. The HD in it was a Hitachi Travelstar 60 GB ATA.
>
> I bought a new Western Digital hard drive: WD Scorpio 60 GB EIDE.
>
> Are there any differences between an EIDE and ATA?
>
> Upon loading XP from my disc I notice it says there is only 41 GB or so
> and then asks for a partition. When I try to partition, nothing is
> partitioned.
>
> Please help.
>

[The Doctor]

Johnny Schmitt wrote:
> I have a Sony PCG-K23 laptop Pentium 4 with 512 MB ram, that has had it's
> hard drive go bad. The HD in it was a Hitachi Travelstar 60 GB ATA.
>
> I bought a new Western Digital hard drive: WD Scorpio 60 GB EIDE.
>
> Are there any differences between an EIDE and ATA?
>
> Upon loading XP from my disc I notice it says there is only 41 GB or so and
> then asks for a partition. When I try to partition, nothing is partitioned.
>
> Please help.
>
>
Yes, there are.
http://www.indiana.edu/~sakaikb/help.cgi?domain=all&docid=adlt