Hard Drive Mayhem!

[Belaraiya]

Okay, here's the story.

I have a 40 gig hard drive on my computer, which until recently was partitioned into three bits. I used Disk Management in windows to remove the other partitions, and all was well.

I reinstalled XP on the hard drive only to find that the only drive was the 9 gig C: partition. So basically I've lost 31 or so gig of space from my hard drive...

I have no idea what program was used to partition the hard drive, but how can I make this drive back to it's full 40 gig with no partitions?

Oh yeah, can you explain it to me using small words? I'm not the best with computer terms or where things hide

[Leshrak]

You can use disk management to re-partition the empty space into a new drive.
Right click on start, go to Manage... then click Disk Management. It'll show you a neat little graph with Unpartitioned space. right click on that, tell it how much you want to set, and let it go to work. Itll probably take a while to reformat it.

Of course, if you want the entire thing, windows and all, on 1 partition, you'll have to reinstall windows again, and in the blue screen at the beginning, delete the 9gb partition and re-partition the space.

[Belaraiya]

That's the thing, at the blue screen it refused to let me repartition the space into one hard drive... maybe I'll reformat it again and see what happens

[Leshrak]

did you actually delete the partition that was there(in the blue windows setup screen)? you have to delete all of them first, then it will allow you to set how much you want on the unpartitioned space.