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Lost HDD space

by jims-in Jul 22, 2007 10:13PM PDT

Hey all

Looking for some help
Yesterday I got a new pc

Intel Core 2 Duo 6,600 MHz
Ge-force 7600 DDR3 256mb
Memory 2,000 MB
SATA HDD 360 GB
20x DVD+/-RW

Ok the problem, I installed xp pro 32bit and it only shows 127.99GB HDD Space
Where and how do I get the rest of the space back?

Looking for simple instructions to follow as I?m not a wizard on computers.
Thanks in advance.

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Proper for XP!

by r. proffitt Former Forum moderator Jul 22, 2007 10:16PM PDT

If you had used a XP SP2 CD then the space would have been available upon install. For your setup, install SP2 and then the remaining space will then show in the Disk Management tool.

Bob

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Found

by jims-in Jul 22, 2007 10:50PM PDT

Ah yes I now have 2 partitions
1st 127.99
2nd 170.10 = 298.09. still missing 32gb that is a lot still missing.
I know windows allocates some for reasons but is 32gb a lot for this?

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Not really missing 30 gb.

by Kees Bakker Jul 22, 2007 10:56PM PDT

Just the difference between 1 billion (what the maker of the disk counts) and 2 to the power 30 (what Windows counts). Times 360. And some overhead. That's the way it should be.

Kees

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Thanks

by jims-in Jul 22, 2007 11:38PM PDT

Thanks alot for the help.
Now comes the task of installing everything.

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