I've encountered same thing - had 4 hard drive failures this year on 2 laptops and 2 desktops. Thank goodness for Ghost backups, thats all I can say!!

I upgraded the size of all and wondered why some would see all the new drive and others wouldn't. In most cases it wasn't big deal since I was installing a 160Gb replacement, but still, I'd like to have it all.

Mine are all Dells that don't come with orig XP Discs, but a system restore disc. Can I use the PCs restore disk that saw all 250gb to format the one I really need all the space on? I was under the impression these restore disks were PC specific and couldn't be used on another??

If I can, then since the Ghost image I'm restoring from that PC is SP3, there shouldn't be probs should there??