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Got a Hard Disc Recogni...problem

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April 1, 2003 6:51:09 PM

I just bought a new system( well actually built it today myself) woo hoo...my first system.
Intel Pentium 2.4 Ghz 533fsb 512k cache, Ga-8pe800 Ultra mobo , 512mb DDR 333mhz kingston, 80GB W.D special Edition 8mb buffer Hard Disc, Samsung 52X CDrom, my "old" Yamaha 20X10X40 CDRW, Geforce 4Ti 4200 128DDR , and a new 17' Screen.
Everything works good and is recognized by the system but for somereason when i go to my computer it only shows that i have 20GB although i bought an 80GB h.d . In the bios and in the system hardisc manager it says 80gb's...when i installed windows xp i asked to partition the drive so that C: would be 22GB ... could that be the reason??
anyone have an idea?

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April 1, 2003 8:14:32 PM

Did you partion the rest of the drive? If not, then thats why it is only showing 20GB. You'll need to create a partition on the remaining part of the drive in order for it to be usable and display in "My Computer".
April 2, 2003 12:23:07 AM

Javic has it... it's only showing you the C: drive.

What you need to do now is go into disk management and partition and format the rest of it.

Right click "My Computer" select "Manage" then "Disk Management"... in there you will find a pictorial represnetation of your drive space. It will likely show about 60gb as "Healthy" and "unformatted"... partition and format as you wish... and you'll see new drive icons pop up in "My Computer" when it's done.




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April 2, 2003 1:27:47 AM

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when i installed windows xp i asked to partition the drive so that C: would be 22GB ... could that be the reason??

yes this is the reason you are only seeing 20GB. If you want to see the entire 80GB as the C drive you have what I think would be the onle 2 options witn Windows XP.

Option 1: Repartition, reformat, re-install windows XP

Option 2: if you have XP Pro, Change the disk from a Basic Disk to a Dynamic Disk, and then extend the partition.

GK

Yes, I made it past newbie w00t.
April 2, 2003 2:32:32 AM

I have windows xp pro ... how exactly do i do that?
"Basic disk to Dynmic Disk and extend the partition?
April 2, 2003 3:42:13 AM

Get to the disk management utility. Right Click in the box that says Disk 0 or Disk 1 and click Upgrade to Dynamic Disk... There are limitations on doing this.

<A HREF="http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;254105" target="_new">Dynamic Disk Hardware Limitations</A>

This means that the entire disk is dynamic not just a partition. This also means that 3rd party hard drive utilities may not work unless made specificly for windows 2000 and XP. Dual boot machines may not be able to access a partition/drive if you convert it. blah blah blah. Just make an image of the drive before hand.

GK

Yes, I made it past newbie w00t.
April 2, 2003 4:09:57 AM

Ummm... 2 questions...

1) Do you want the whole drive as a single partition?
If so I'd suggest a reinstall. Dynamic drives have some advantages, but there are problems as well... Some software ignores them, some won't run on them and you can't always defrag them properly.


2) If you do want the whole drive as a single partition, why did you tell XP to only format 20gigs?







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April 4, 2003 12:32:11 AM

I agree with Teq. If you want one partion, then format and reinstall. I've had nothing but TONS of problems with Dynamic drives. I even had W2K all of a sudden fail to see a drive I had in my system because I converted it to Dynamic. And ofcourse once you go Dynamic, you can't revert to basic without formatting it (I think... alteast thats what I had to do in my situation. I stopped using Dynamic all together after that so it's been a while)
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