Re: Did XP upgrade partition my hard drive?

From: OJ (orljustin_at_aol.com)
Date: 04/07/04 

Date: 7 Apr 2004 05:11:48 -0700

GateKeeper <GateKeeper@earth1ink.net> wrote in message news:<O7K7DqCHEHA.3832@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl>...
> Is it possible that you backed up your old operating system? That is
> one of the options when upgrading, so that you can uninstall WinXP if
> you so desire. Backing up the old OS might account for the loss of
> space. Also, if you opted for a dual boot system, then XP would indeed
> have partitioned your hard drive. In that case, Disk Management would
> have shown at least two partitions.
>
> OJ wrote:
>
> >Hiya,
> >
> >Just upgraded from 98 to XP. Suddenly, my HD says it is full, and
> >that I only have 12.6 gigs total space on there. Now, I know it isn't
> >a 12.6 gig hard drive. Maybe 20, maybe 40...I can't remember.
> >
> >However, no tool I can find tells me that it is anymore than 12-13
> >ish. The XP disk management tool, "Partition Manager".
> >
> >I thought I could extend it with the diskpart program, but apparently,
> >it since it was a basic disk on FAT32, and now I've converted to NTFS,
> >I can't do that.
> >
> >What the heck is going on here, and how can I fix this without
> >reinstalling and losing all my data? I'm tired of copying stuff.
> >
> >oj
> >
> >

Hi,

When I converted to NTFS, it did tell me that if I did, I wouldn't be
able to uninstall XP, which was fine, so I guess it did back it up.
Once I converted, I had a gig or so free, which I attributed to
redistribution of things, but maybe it cleared out the old os. Is
there a way to make sure that 98 is gone?

Disk management won't let me even add new partitions on my drive, or
convert to a dynamic disk. My XP Pro laptop gives me the dynamic disk
option when I right-click on disk 0, but I also don't see anything to
let me create partitions in there.

oj

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