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Old 05-28-2006, 12:03 AM   #1 (permalink)
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I know this has probably ben asked a thousand times but I will ask it again. My situation is a little different I think.

I just got done building my computer (specs below). I have my 250 GB HD but I am only getting 127gb on my C: drive. I read somewhere that windows SP2 corrects this limit but after installing SP2 it was still only reading 127gb.

I want the rest of my hard drive space back. Do I have to create a new partition? I wouold rather put 250gb on one partition.

All of my programs are already installed. I have spent the last 2 days trying to perfect my PC only to just realize that I didnt partition my hard drive before installing everything.

Any way I can do this without losing all of my stuff?
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Old 05-28-2006, 04:43 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Have you installed the driver? A lot of hard drives need the driver to installed for windows to see all 250gb. I'm pretty sure when I installed my new harddrive I read something about windows not recognizing more than 127gb if you don't have the drivers and service packs and what not installed.
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Old 05-28-2006, 04:47 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by haynea4f
I know this has probably ben asked a thousand times but I will ask it again. My situation is a little different I think.

I just got done building my computer (specs below). I have my 250 GB HD but I am only getting 127gb on my C: drive. I read somewhere that windows SP2 corrects this limit but after installing SP2 it was still only reading 127gb.

I want the rest of my hard drive space back. Do I have to create a new partition? I wouold rather put 250gb on one partition.

All of my programs are already installed. I have spent the last 2 days trying to perfect my PC only to just realize that I didnt partition my hard drive before installing everything.

Any way I can do this without losing all of my stuff?
hmm... Off Topic: this computer looks like something i configured...lol
is it?

u would have to back up all your stuff it wanted to make it one partition.... sorry... if u just went ahead and did it u would lose all your stuff... i beleive
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Old 05-28-2006, 09:55 AM   #4 (permalink)
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you will have to create a partition right click my computer and left click manage then click disk management and you should see it as unallocated just format it from there
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