Just Formatted a 160g hard disc and mucked up partition Help please

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dazmaf

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#81064 7-Apr-2011 20:59

Howdy,
I just formatted a hard drive and have re installed xp home all good.
I checked C drive properties after install and somehow I have lost 80gig of disc space, I did try to get rid of all partitions prior to re-install to have 1 drive space in c at 160gig.
My question is can i fix this without formatting again and re setting partitions.
Any help most appreciated
Cheers

gible

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#456558 7-Apr-2011 21:24

You could try a GParted Live CD and just resize the existing partition.

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#456595 7-Apr-2011 23:04

Sounds like someone chose Fat32 (80G limit by default in XP) and as said, will need to be offline re-sized or converted to NTFS

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#456596 7-Apr-2011 23:10

You could try upgrading it to NTFS using convert.exe and *then* increase the partition size.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb456984.aspx

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dazmaf

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Wannabe Geek

#456832 8-Apr-2011 19:20

Thanks guys,
I seemed to fix my issue by formatting the partition that was there and it is all good, now hace a 75g c drive and a 60g H drive on the one disc, perhaps I just de activated the H partition on set up.
Thanks again.