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howard7890   07-20-2008 at 08:25:07 AM

I bought a new 120Gig hard drive for me laptop. I formatted the drive reducing the size to 55 Gigs.
The drive formatted but I no longer see the rest of the drive.
I have tried to delete the partition but (after the partition is deleted) the drive just displays 55 Gig.
I can’t even see the drive in explorer. I have to go to Disk Management (In XP) to see the drive.
I lost the rest. Is there a way to retrieve the rest of the drive?
Thanks. :fou:

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BustedSony   07-20-2008 at 09:05:14 AM
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You have to create a new partition in the remaining space and format that.

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howard7890   07-20-2008 at 10:43:14 AM
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There is no remaining space. It is like the new 120 gig drive is only 55 gigs. The rest of the drive is just gone.
:pfff:

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FreeDuck   07-20-2008 at 11:10:35 AM
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If Windows XP Disk Management fails, maybe you can try the GParted Live CD:

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/index.php

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croc   07-20-2008 at 11:12:34 AM
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You don't mention HDD MFG or OS. However, it doesn't matter much, whatever OS you are using do a complete format, not just a 'quick' format. Also most HDD MFG's will have tools on their website that may help in these tasks.

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BustedSony   07-20-2008 at 11:25:21 AM
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howard7890 wrote :

There is no remaining space. It is like the new 120 gig drive is only 55 gigs. The rest of the drive is just gone.
:pfff:



You should absolutely see "Unpartitioned space" in disc management under administrative tools. You mean it shows the full physical drive at 55 Gigs, and NO additional space? It should show the full PHYSICAL drive, not just the formatted parts.

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rahul_cracker   07-20-2008 at 12:26:56 PM
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hi
assming you are using XP or vista go to my computer and right click and select manage and then disk managment you will see the drive there format it or create a new partition

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JonathanDeane   07-20-2008 at 12:34:14 PM
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Maybe it was a 60GB drive that some one ran double space on... kidding :)

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BustedSony   07-20-2008 at 04:15:39 PM
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JonathanDeane wrote :

Maybe it was a 60GB drive that some one ran double space on... kidding :)



That's more likely than only seeing a 120 gig drive as a 60 in Disk Management.

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