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More info?)
Foolish me, I was thinking it was his 2nd disk and not the boot disk.
"Nathan McNulty" <nospam@msn.com> wrote in message
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> I don't think he can do that since he has Windows on the small
> partition. You have 2 choices here. First, you can make a new
> partition (which will show up as a second hard drive in My Computer) and
> that will allow you to use the rest of your hard drive space. I would
> recommend this over the second option as you keep all your data and
> don't have to work as hard. To do this, you just right click on that
> unallocated space and create a partition with it using the max space
> available. It should get a drive letter (probably either D or E)
> assigned to it, or you can do this manually by right clicking on it and
> changing the drive letter.
>
> Your second option is going to be to boot off your Windows XP CD, delete
> the partition, create a new partition using the full disk space, then
> format it (NTFS is highly recommended), then install Windows XP. Be
> sure to back up all of your data before using this method as ALL of your
> data WILL be ERASED.
>
> ----
> Nathan McNulty
>
>
> Norm wrote:
> > Delete the small partition and then create one the size of the whole
disk,
> > format and assign a drive letter.
> >
> > "EddieC" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:9f7b01c4792c$f7680d90$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> >
> >>Windows XP only shows the hard drive as 2gb for a 13gb
> >>drive. The bios shows 13 gb, can I get windows to
> >>recognise 13gb or will I have to reformat?
> >>Thanks
> >
> >
> >
>
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