After formatting I no longer see the entire drive.

[howard7890]

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.

 

[BustedSony]

You have to create a new partition in the remaining space and format that.

 

[howard7890]

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.

 

[Freeduck]

If Windows XP Disk Management fails, maybe you can try the GParted Live CD:

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

 

[croc]

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.

 

[BustedSony]

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.

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.

 

[rahul_cracker]

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

 

[JonathanDeane]

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

 

[BustedSony]

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.