lost hard drive space, PLEASE help me!

by darkshadow00000 Feb 18, 2009 7:37PM PST

ok me and my friend re-installed windows on my computer using a reinstall disc. pretty much had some problems with my computer a and a few trojins. before i reinstalled i have approxmite 271 gigs on my c hardrive. afer uninstalling everying and putting windows back on it my c drive says a max of 128 gigs. i lost abbout 150 gigs of space, how can i retrive this back if possible? i have no clue what happened everything went smoothly. thanks so much guys!!!

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Re: disc space lost

by Kees Bakker Feb 18, 2009 7:45PM PST

Go into Disk Manager and tell us all it says about the (partitions on) this disk.

Kees

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by darkshadow00000 Feb 18, 2009 8:10PM PST

where is the disc manager?

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Re: disk manager

by Kees Bakker Feb 18, 2009 8:15PM PST

Disk management is a program in XP. I'm rather sure it's in the Help and Support. But googling for XP DISK MANAGEMENT works also.

I find http://www.theeldergeek.com/disk_management.htm to be a clear instruction.

Kees

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by darkshadow00000 Feb 18, 2009 8:23PM PST

DRIVE C- layout:partition type:Basic file system:healthy system Capacity:127.99 free space:109.48 % free: 85% fault tolerance:no overhead: 0%

is that what you want to know? cause before i reinstalled windows that c drive had 271 gigs total....

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So it has ...

by Kees Bakker Feb 18, 2009 10:59PM PST

a c-drive of 128 GB and empty space of 110 GB. That's OK together, more or less.

Things you can do:
- Use Disk Manager to change the empty space in a new partition. Format it NTFS. It will become your d:-drive.
- Buy a program like partition manager and use that to make the c:-partition greater.
- Download a bootable gparted cd (well, an .iso file, burn it to CD yourself) and do the same. See http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php

Your choice.

Kees

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Not to forget!

by Kees Bakker Feb 18, 2009 11:00PM PST

You need XP SP2 or higher to be able to have a partition > 128 GB.

Kees

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omg

by darkshadow00000 Feb 19, 2009 3:32AM PST

i looked in the partitions and i had to make a new drive so i have one drive with 130 gigs, the c drive and another drive wit 170 gigs my newly made j drive thanks so mus i dont care that they are seprate im just happy that i have them

again thank you so much!!!

-Brian

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