Re: Disk Management Tool in XP Upgrade

Okay...let me go step by step: maybe this will help other folx
too....which is why we're here...

I had to reinstall my OS due to MS updates conflicts.

I had a FAT 32 Partition allocated 35 gig...and a NTFS partition 33
gig, that i had to delete.

I took the advice of Seagate, and completely zero-ed out the
drive...took about 5 hours. seeing I was having problems deleting the
NTFS partition.

The puter is a HP pavilion, with WIN ME. I got into FDISK, and had
problems setting partitions. After I finally got a DOS primary
partition installed, I used the HP recovery disks to reinstall the
system.

After I reinstalled the OS, I upgraded to XP Home. this is probably at
least the 6th time in 3 years I've had to reinstall the XP update.

Now, my puter is only seeing 33 gig of storage, and I cant find the
rest of it. Disk Management in XP is greyed out, expect for open,
explore, and properties.

Now....I'm trying to find the rest of the HD storage....which I can't
seem to do.

The system runs fine, just have only 33 gig out of 74 after formatting,
to use.

I've installed the system before, never had problems like this.


Ken Blake, MVP wrote:
hiredgun56@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Problem: Seagate Hard Drive 80 gb.; and XP is only recognizing 33 gig.
File system was installed as Fat 32.


Windows XP will not create a FAT32 partition larger than 32GB (although it
will happily use one if it is first created externally). You are running
into that limit.


The Disk Management tool will not function, to find lost hard drive
space, which is over 40 Gig.


It's not lost space., it's just unpartitioned space. You can't use it until
it's partitioned.


Question: Am I to assume that the Disk Mangement tool will only
function when the File table is NTFS?


No, that's not correct. The unpartitioned isn't even NTFS. It doesn't even
have a file system until you've partitioned it.

It sounds like you're just doing something wrong. Read here: "How to use
Disk Management to configure basic disks in Windows XP" at
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309000

--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
Please reply to the newsgroup


Gee, I'd actually like to use the 40 gig....I like to use what I pay
for....

Thanks....

.

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