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Blade   04-13-2004 at 07:17:25 AM

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I have a 80 gig hard drive. I had to re-install Windows
XP due to some stuff up. Anyway, after installation it
shows that I have a 80 gig hardrive but tells me in
properties that I only have 9 gig. Whenever I load
software onto it, I have to cleanup my hardrive to get
more space as it reports that my harddrive is full (at 9
gig). This was never a problem before I had to re-install
Windows. Can anyone help? I am sure it must be some sort
of partition issue!

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Anonymous   04-13-2004 at 09:32:13 AM
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It looks like you partitioned it wrong when you
reinstalled windows. You can either reinstall windows
again and fix it or go to Disk Managment
(Start>Settings>Control Panel>Administrative
Tools>Computer Managment>Storage>Disk Managment)
Have a little look there.

>-----Original Message-----
>I have a 80 gig hard drive. I had to re-install Windows
>XP due to some stuff up. Anyway, after installation it
>shows that I have a 80 gig hardrive but tells me in
>properties that I only have 9 gig. Whenever I load
>software onto it, I have to cleanup my hardrive to get
>more space as it reports that my harddrive is full (at 9
>gig). This was never a problem before I had to re-
install
>Windows. Can anyone help? I am sure it must be some sort
>of partition issue!
>.
>

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bar   04-13-2004 at 10:11:02 AM
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Maxtor suggest that there are three possible answers to this question:
Check with the system or motherboard manufacturer for any BIOS upgrades for the system. If there are no BIOS updates from the manufacturer you can visit www.esupport.com for a BIOS update. Maxtor Corporation has no affiliation with esupport.com and offers this information as a courtesy to our customers.


(Recommended) Purchase a PCI ATA controller card that will support the capacity of the drive. The two benefits of ATA controller cards are:
the ability to support large capacity drives
the ability to support the faster transfer rates of the drive. Maxtor's online store, www.MaxStore.com, has a complete selection of ATA controller cards that support all Maxtor drives.


The last option would be to use our MaxBlast software. The MaxBlast software will install an overlay (EZ-BIOS) on the hard drive to support the full capacity of the drive.

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peter   04-13-2004 at 03:03:06 PM
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Probably is... partition issue as you guessed. When you re-installed, you
should have seen a screen showing the old install of XP and wold have been
asked if you wanted to delete this partition with the old XP... Yes...And
then setup a NEW partition which would probably be about 76 gigs or so..
This will leave 4 gigs or so that is unpartitioned (80gig drive , less 4
gigs) which is normal, i think. Setup Xp on this new raw partition; yes....
I have done this carelessly myself and wound-up with a much smaller HD like
you did.
It is easy to miss this if you aren't used to re-installing steps..

"Blade" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:18eaf01c4212f$c0cdf880$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> I have a 80 gig hard drive. I had to re-install Windows
> XP due to some stuff up. Anyway, after installation it
> shows that I have a 80 gig hardrive but tells me in
> properties that I only have 9 gig. Whenever I load
> software onto it, I have to cleanup my hardrive to get
> more space as it reports that my harddrive is full (at 9
> gig). This was never a problem before I had to re-install
> Windows. Can anyone help? I am sure it must be some sort
> of partition issue!

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