Just recently I built my first computer and everything was going fine 'til I noticed Drive C only has a capacity of 16GB according to Windows XP when I know for definite it's meant to hold 120GB. Even the BIOS reports 120GB.
Does anyone know why this is happening? Could it be something to do with partitions?
Windows XP Home
Gigabyte GA-8IPE1000 Pro
P4 HT 3.06Ghz
1GBDDR Dual Channel RAM
120GB IBM DeskStar HD (lol)
256MB GeForce FX 5700
Do this: Right click My Computer then manage from the menu.
Then under storage click disk management. There you should see the actual size of your HD with the partitions.
D/L pm8, let it make the (2) floppies, boot from them and resize it. Or at least post what it said..?
"O" almost forgot, the trial version let's yu go thru the motions but doesn't do anything....so find someone that will send you copies of the floppies or buy it.
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I think I would go with NTFS as opposed to FAT32....just because its better all around.
What if you boot from a floppy disk and run fdisk....what does it show for partitions then?
And....HOW exactly did you install windows?
Did you let it partition/format the hard drive from within the install or was the hard drive already partitioned?
Was the hard drive new or had it been used before?
If its just a new build without a lot of personal data on it yet..I think Id just take a boot disk and fdisk away ALL the partitions until it has nothing on it.....THEN...boot off the XP cd and let it use the whole hard drive to install windows on....OR...you could make a partition scheme if you want a certain size partition for the windows install and a larger partition for data etc.
Is that what you were aiming at to tstart with, a smaller windows partition?
JP
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Last edited by John Prophet; 01-07-2004 at 12:00 PM.
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