Formatting Hardrive T22

I purchased a 130GB hardrive for my T22 Thinkpad. I used the Windows 2000 recovery CD that came with the computer to set up my operating system on the new hardrive. The recovery CD only formatted 65GB. The remaining 65 GB are unusable. When I ran the recovery cd I do not remember seeing any screen that allowed me to select the amount of Harddrive space that I wished to format. It looks like it defaults to 65 GB automatically.
1) Is there any way to utilize this extra space using the recovery CD?
2) Do I need to reinstall my operating system to take advantage of the remaining storage, or is there a way to format this extra space separately without effecting the 65GB that has already been formatted?
3) Does the Thinkpad T22 have a limit on the size of the hardrive that can be used?

Welcome to the forum!
Since you're running W2K, you'll have to start from scratch, formatting the drive all over again, then creating two partitions, and installing the OS.
Your machine, with XP, would be able to utilize all 130GB in a single partition. This might have been fixed in W2K SP4, but am not quite sure...what I'm sure is that recovery disks are NOT SP4...
Hope this helps.
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