HD Partition not recognized

[Angeejay]

I had to wipe out my hard drive and reformat it. Then I installed XP but I only formatted 10 Gigs of my 200Gig Hard drive. I thought I was partitioning it and the rest of the hard drive would show up after I installed a big hard drive enabler by Maxtor. But I realize now that only 10 gigs will show up. How do I get the other 190Gigs to show up and also how would I format it? Would I have to start all over again and reinstall XP?? :confused:

[BipolarBill]

Hmmm - the title is not really accurate. There is no partition to recognize. It's "raw" or "unallocated".

No, you don't have to start over. If you have a floppy drive, you can expand the 10GB partition to the full capacity.

http://partitionlogic.org.uk/index.html

http://www.zeleps.com/

[G]

You can also use Disk Management. It will do the lot for you.

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=309000

[BipolarBill]

Nope - she can only add another partition with Disk Management.

[Baddog]

Just Me ...But I would add another partition to store data on and back up to, so if if I wanted to reload Windows, My data would be there on the second partition.

[BipolarBill]

The trouble with that idea is that 10GB is not even big enough for Windows alone - much less applications. It needs to be at least 50MB for the future.

She still must expand the C: partition.

[G]

I was referring to DM with respect to partition creation and volume creation only. Not resizing of a volume.

10GB may be enough depending what the C volume is used for.

There is the potential to use the remaining unallocated HDD for other uses.

It may be the case that the 10GB may not be enough but the question does not relate to sizing of the boot/system partition.

At this time this is not an issue.

You meant 50GB not 50MB - yes? ;)

[rwest]

I thought I was partitioning it

You were.

All you need to do is boot to your XP disc allocate and format the rest of it. It will show up in my computer as another harddrive. Alah... another partiton. Which it sounds like you were wanting to do. You just hadn't finished off the second partition.

The second partiton did not show up because it wasn't formatted. And it won't format unless it is allocated.

[BipolarBill]

10GB is not even big enough for Windows alone - much less applications. It needs to be at least 50MB for the future.Darn I hate quoting myself.

[rwest]

I 10GB may be enough depending what the C volume is used for. ;)

Not sure who's right here.

[G]

To future proof, use the program Bill suggested to expand the size of your boot/system partition. And then use the Windows Disk Management (WDM) MMC snap-in to create an extended partition and then logical dos drives.

Take an image before resizing first and backup your data too.

[G]

Did you try the advice and were you successful?

A reply would be nice considering the help we expend in helping posters; most of which give no feedback.

Feedback show politeness but it brings the issue to a close, unless further is is required and given, and we can all learn from it.

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I don’t have the time to help users who do not have civility to inform us on their progress.