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| Thread ID: 74497 | 2006-11-24 22:42:00 | Hard Drive Capacity Mystery | DogBot (11438) | Press F1 |
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| 501827 | 2006-11-24 22:42:00 | I have a hard drive that I bought as a 40gig hard drive, It is labeled 40gigs .... BUT.... when I get the properties on it, it says the actual capacity is something close to 12gigs...... Someone else installed this drive for me and I never bothered to check the capacity until I started to run out of space. This I know: the HD was not partitioned into two (that I know of) because there isn't another drive letter on my computer Thanks for any help |
DogBot (11438) | ||
| 501828 | 2006-11-24 22:49:00 | What OS are you using? Is the drive new or second hand? It is possible for a drive to be partitioned, the "lost" part would not be visible unles that partition is formatted. | Helplesss (272) | ||
| 501829 | 2006-11-24 22:57:00 | control panel - Administrative Tools - Computer Management - storage - disk management. Tell us wat u see there.. | gum digger (6100) | ||
| 501830 | 2006-11-24 23:04:00 | It is possible that they did partition it and did not make another partition which is why there is not another letter/drive visible. Go into disk management and see the disk there, there should be some unpartitioned/formatted space. |
The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
| 501831 | 2006-11-24 23:58:00 | What I see in Storage is quite interesting: =================================== Disk 0 Basic 37.27 GB Online ------ Local Disk (c:) 11.72 GB NTFS Healthy (System) ------ 25.55 GB Unallocated ==================================== So how do I get a hold of that unallocated space? |
DogBot (11438) | ||
| 501832 | 2006-11-25 01:02:00 | right click on unallocated space and create partition. choose fat32 or ntfs. if you want to join the current partition with the unlocated then use partition magic. but first u need to create a partition outof the unallocated space. make sure it is the same filesystem as you current one. |
gum digger (6100) | ||
| 501833 | 2006-11-25 01:12:00 | Great, thank you. BTW Is partition magic a software package? | DogBot (11438) | ||
| 501834 | 2006-11-25 02:49:00 | Great, thank you. BTW Is partition magic a software package? www.soft32.com |
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