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
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> 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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