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sbstransit   08-23-2009 at 12:10:10 PM

Hi everyone

I recently format my hard drive and wanted to split my disk into two partition, the 100gb and 150gb. (btw my hard disk is 250gb) after i partition one disk which was C:\ . in my mistake, i forgot to partition to d:\ too and installed my windows xp into the 100gb partition.

Right now, my hard disk only reads 100gb in windows with no sight of the other 150gb.
BIOS detected 250gb though
I tried reformatting the computer again but there is only 100gb to be format and re-partitioned.

How do I get back the other 150gb!

Please help

thank you

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Best answer from 440bx
The missing 150GB are most likely just "unallocated" as far as Windows goes. Simple to fix.

Right Click on "My Computer", select "Manage" in the popup menu.

This will bring a window titled "Computer Management", in that window double click the line that reads "Disk Management".

You should now see a "Disk 0", the left part should be showing your 100GB partition and following that you should see a portion titled "unallocated".

Right click on the unallocated portion and select "create extended partition" (or very similar wording referring to a partition), allocate all the space available to the partition (that's the default), click "next" as many times as necessary until the partition is created.

The area that was originally "unallocated" should now read "extended" and be colored green. Click in the green area and select "new logical drive", allocate all the space to the logical drive.

You now should have a new drive with the 150GB missing.

HTH
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440bx   08-23-2009 at 12:34:30 PM
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The missing 150GB are most likely just "unallocated" as far as Windows goes. Simple to fix.

Right Click on "My Computer", select "Manage" in the popup menu.

This will bring a window titled "Computer Management", in that window double click the line that reads "Disk Management".

You should now see a "Disk 0", the left part should be showing your 100GB partition and following that you should see a portion titled "unallocated".

Right click on the unallocated portion and select "create extended partition" (or very similar wording referring to a partition), allocate all the space available to the partition (that's the default), click "next" as many times as necessary until the partition is created.

The area that was originally "unallocated" should now read "extended" and be colored green. Click in the green area and select "new logical drive", allocate all the space to the logical drive.

You now should have a new drive with the 150GB missing.

HTH

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sbstransit   08-23-2009 at 02:16:31 PM

440bx wrote :

The missing 150GB are most likely just "unallocated" as far as Windows goes. Simple to fix.

Right Click on "My Computer", select "Manage" in the popup menu.

This will bring a window titled "Computer Management", in that window double click the line that reads "Disk Management".

You should now see a "Disk 0", the left part should be showing your 100GB partition and following that you should see a portion titled "unallocated".

Right click on the unallocated portion and select "create extended partition" (or very similar wording referring to a partition), allocate all the space available to the partition (that's the default), click "next" as many times as necessary until the partition is created.

The area that was originally "unallocated" should now read "extended" and be colored green. Click in the green area and select "new logical drive", allocate all the space to the logical drive.

You now should have a new drive with the 150GB missing.

HTH



thanx alot! finally my hard disk is back!

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