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| Thread ID: 65683 | 2006-01-26 23:37:00 | please help hard drive not recognizing full capacity | adamp15 (9634) | Press F1 |
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| 424497 | 2006-01-26 23:37:00 | I was installing windows xp on my friends computer and during the formatting of the hard drive, my power flickered and the computer rebooted. now every time I go to create a new partion it only shows 139GB of the 250GB. I have no idea how to fix this. I tried booting into the windows repair and using the "chkdsk" utility but it didn't accomplish anything. I was wondering if you guys had any suggestions? | adamp15 (9634) | ||
| 424498 | 2006-01-26 23:50:00 | Don't panic... after installing SP2 Windows should be able to see the entire drive. If it doesn't a patch should fix it. Install SP2 and come back if you still can't see all of it. |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 424499 | 2006-01-26 23:58:00 | we've already had sp2 on it before but I'll install everything and check it out again. the installed it the first time after the power flicker not realizing that the partion I was creating was smaller than the drives capacity. the friend I installed it for later called me and said the the drive only showed 130-something GB. I'll do it again though and see if we can find a recovery tool doing that. | adamp15 (9634) | ||
| 424500 | 2006-01-27 02:03:00 | ok, I have the computer running with sp2 and everything. I go to "Computer Managerment" and I can view the unallocated space. the thing I'm wondering now is if I can just make this unallocated space part of the partition C: partition instead of creating a new one? | adamp15 (9634) | ||
| 424501 | 2006-01-27 02:15:00 | If it went down during a formatting operation it's a bit surprising it allowed you to carry on. There would be a major "glitch" at the least between the nice orderly newly formatted part and the remains of wat was on the disk before. Does it actually show it as one partition of 139GB and the rest as free space? If it does, you could try using the Disk management stuff to add the rest to the working partition. That "probably" won't do any harm/ My personal preference would be to start again. Partitioning and formatting should be perfect. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 424502 | 2006-01-27 03:44:00 | I'm not sure whether Graham's suggestion of adding the free space to the existing partition in Disk Management will work but there is only one way to find out, I guess . Some reading on this problem can be found in these threads: . pressf1 . co . nz/showthread . php?t=29327&highlight=137gb+limit" target="_blank">www . pressf1 . co . nz (#2 down the page) . pressf1 . co . nz/showthread . php?t=60652&highlight=137gb+limit" target="_blank">www . pressf1 . co . nz . pressf1 . co . nz/showthread . php?t=50395&highlight=137gb+limit" target="_blank">www . pressf1 . co . nz Personally I believe partitions are a good idea - have a read of this thread ( . pressf1 . co . nz/faq . php?faq=pressf1_faq_windows#faq_pressf1_faq_43" target="_blank">www . pressf1 . co . nz ) . Let us know how you get on . |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 424503 | 2006-01-27 14:41:00 | well I finally just created a seperate partion. I didn't know creating multiple partitions was better. oh well, looks like it worked out for the best then. thanks for all the suggestions. | adamp15 (9634) | ||
| 424504 | 2006-01-27 22:05:00 | :thumbs: | FoxyMX (5) | ||
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