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Re: Help with Partitions/WinXP Install

 
 
Len
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      30th Jun 2003
Try going into control panel, administrative tools, computer management and
choose the disk management feature in the left pain.

This should show you what you have as far as drive/free space. You can
partition/format the remainder of the drive as "d:" if you wish.

Good Luck,
Len

"Greg" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:048c01c33db1$788f7880$(E-Mail Removed)...
> I had just booted up my computer for the first time and
> then it asked me if i wanted to partition the drive. I
> figured by creating a partition of 18000mb it would
> automatically create a D:. I guess it did but I'm sure my
> problem is that I only formatted the C: to NTFS and I
> figure neglected formatting the new partition to NTFS as
> well. Therefore when I get into Windows it only sees my C:
> as 21GB and my optical drives. How should I remedy this
> problem to recover the rest of my storage space. This is a
> WD Raptor 36GB on a brand new installation of XP Home.
> Should I reformat and enter Windows setup again? WIll
> reactivation become a problem? Thanks..



 
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