Hard Drive Problem?

[Des_Zac]

I have a weird problem that didn't come to my attention until just recently. My hard drive is displayed as 127GB, but, as I just noticed a couple days ago when I opened my computer and did some wire management, my hard drive is actually 250GB! Why would it be displaying it at HALF size?


Thanks a lot,

-Zach

 

[voyagerfan99]

What size is your partition? Is it a pre-built or a custom built?

 

[Des_Zac]

What size is your partition? Is it a pre-built or a custom built?

My uncle built it for us, so it's custom built, here's a screenshot of My Computer.

 

[wolfeking]

your drive has been cut up into C, E, F, and G. those together are 241.5GB, which is about what the 250s are after formatting.

 

[StrangleHold]

Yeah, lke said above. Your drive is split up with 4 partitions.

 

[Des_Zac]

Yeah, lke said above. Your drive is split up with 4 partitions.

No, there are 3 physical hard drives in the computer.

 

[johnb35]

Was a pre XP sp1 cd used to install? If so, thats why. Without a service pack installed the original XP cd didn't recognize any drives over 127 gb or so.

You can go into disk management and patition the rest of the drive to use.

 

[Des_Zac]

Was a pre XP sp1 cd used to install? If so, thats why. Without a service pack installed the original XP cd didn't recognize any drives over 127 gb or so.

You can go into disk management and patition the rest of the drive to use.

How can I partition it without an XP disk, sorry, I know nothing about partitioning.

 

[TrainTrackHack]

How can I partition it without an XP disk, sorry, I know nothing about partitioning.

IIRC it was control panel -> administrative tools -> disk management. In disc management, you can either create a new partition to use the free space or you might be able to extend the existing partition to fill up the entire drive (not sure if the latter was possible in XP but I remember there being a such option).

 

[voyagerfan99]

IIRC it was control panel -> administrative tools -> disk management. In disc management, you can either create a new partition to use the free space or you might be able to extend the existing partition to fill up the entire drive (not sure if the latter was possible in XP but I remember there being a such option).

You can't expand the active partition in XP - only 7 (and Vista?) can do that. He needs to use a third party bootCD like GParted.

 

[Des_Zac]

Thanks for the help guys! I've now got 100GB free, that should be enough till we get the new HDD

 

[TrainTrackHack]

You can't expand the active partition in XP - only 7 (and Vista?) can do that. He needs to use a third party bootCD like GParted.

Darn, I had a feeling I might have remembered wrong... but yes, Vista indeed does have this ability.

 

[StrangleHold]

XP has diskpart. Run/cmd/diskpart.exe/list volume/