Re: Second Hard-Drive - Sizing Problems

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From: brad (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 07/15/04 

Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 08:22:08 -0700

thanks for all your responses....I have tried reformatting
and re-partitioning....every time it only shows 2GB as
being available....it never shows the other 27GB as being
available, it only shows the entire drive (with and
without partition) as being 2GB.....partition magic can't
do anything with it either.

thanks for your help

>-----Original Message-----
>What does the other 30 GB show up as?
>You should be able to do anything to the second drive
since
>it isn't booting. Try deleting any existing partition and
>then reformatting.
>
>
>"brad" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>message news:2d70901c46a6e$cb1e6490$a401280a@phx.gbl...
>| Thanks, but I have already tried that, the largest
>| partition that I can create is 2GB, not 30GB...thanks,
any
>| other ideas?
>|
>|
>| >-----Original Message-----
>| >Right click My Computer, select Manage. See the
>| Storage/Disk
>| >Management list on the left sidebar, click Disk
>| Management.
>| >Find the drive in question and partition and format it.
>| >
>| >
>| >--
>| >The people think the Constitution protects their
rights;
>| >But government sees it as an obstacle to be overcome.
>| >
>| >
>| >"brad" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>| >message news:2dfe301c46a68$bfc50640$a301280a@phx.gbl...
>| >| I have 2 hard drives on my Windows XP system, the
first
>| >| drive is an 80GB which is working just fine, the
second
>| >| drive is an IBM that I took from my old Windows 2000
>| pc, I
>| >| want to use that drive to hold the pagefile.sys files
>| >| only. XP recognizes the drive but only recognizes
2GB
>| out
>| >| of 30GB....part of the problem may be that it also
has
>| the
>| >| Master Boot Record from the prior pc installation.
Any
>| >| ideas of how to 1) erase everything from that drive
and
>| 2)
>| >| claim the entire drive space?
>| >|
>| >| thanks
>| >
>| >
>| >.
>| >
>
>
>.
>

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