got my 200gb serial ata hd today, had a few hitches getting it goin (nostly due to my dodgy usb keboard which wouldnt let me get into windows setup) the first time i did it recognized the disk and showed 200gb of unpartitioned space, but as i was waiting for my xp pro cd to arrive (was using xp home to check if it worked ok) i didnt install windows, i came back later and got into setup after some more problems with the keyboard, to find that i now had a partition that had been created (???) and well i removed the partion to make a new one and it wouldnt let me make one bigger than 130gb! im formatting and installing windows now, is there a way to get my 70gb back? help
retreiving my "lost" diskspace
- Thread starter sh33p1985
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I think I have the same problem. After some trouble with XP I noticed that my 2nd partition on my 200Gig drive was not well. I lost 70Gig. The 1st partition is 30Gig en the 2nd should be 170Gig. After formatting, the drive had only 100Gig of freespace. At last I tried to rebuild the partition. 1st removed the 170Gig partition....after that I could only make a 100Gig partition, where did the last 70Gig go???
I think I have the same problem. After some trouble with XP I noticed that my 2nd partition on my 200Gig drive was not well. I lost 70Gig. The 1st partition is 30Gig en the 2nd should be 170Gig. After formatting, the drive had only 100Gig of freespace. At last I tried to rebuild the partition. 1st removed the 170Gig partition....after that I could only make a 100Gig partition, where did the last 70Gig go???