new hard disk partition

[dany]

I installed windows xp on a new,blank hard disk. the
total volume of the hdd being 80 gb. during
installation,i made 2 partitions,the first one being
drive c,of 20 gb and second one ,drive e of 30 gb. I
assumed that the remaining space ie 30 gb(for those who
came in late,my hdd is 80 gb in total.) has remained
unaccounted for!!!!the pc is working properly but i get
only 2 hard disk drives c and e shown in the system
properties!can anyone help me how to locate the missing
30gb and format it??i eagerly appreciate the reply.

 

[hustedj]

Dany
Right click on my computer go to manage / Disk Management and on the right
side of the window you will see your current partitions and then you should
see the 30gig that isn't a drive. If you right click on that 30gig you can
create a partition and then format and activate. Then you should have a 3rd
partition now.

Good Luck and I hope this helps
Thanks

 

[Duh]

Until you partition and format the remaining space XP cannot use it, it only
sees formatted partitions. Right click on My Computer, select Manage and
under the storage folder select Disk Management. You should see the
unallocated space in the right pane and can right click on it to partition
and format.

 

[R. C. White]

Hi, Dany.

Welcome to WinXP! ;<)

As hustedj and Duh have told you, the (new in Win2K) tool that we use now to
manage drives and partitions is Disk Management. We let WinXP Setup create
the "system partition" (almost always Drive C and the "boot volume" (where
we choose to install WinXP, and where the "boot folder" \Windows resides),
if different. Then we do the rest of the jobs that FDISK and Format.exe did
when we were using MS-DOS. Disk Management creates and deletes partitions
(and logical drives in extended partitions), assigns and reassigns "drive"
letters, and formats them. It can format any size volume as NTFS, and any
size up to the Microsoft-imposed limit of 32 GB as FAT32. (If you want a
larger volume formatted to FAT32, you'll have to boot to an MS-DOS floppy
and use Format.exe; after formatting, WinXP can use it all.)

There is an extensive Help file in Disk Management which explains many disk
concepts. Also, you can click View and arrange Disk Management's appearance
to suit yourself. I like it Maximized with the Volume List on top and the
Graphical View at the bottom.

Since your two existing volumes are shown as C: and E:, I would guess that
your CD/DVD drive has the letter D:. Except for the system and boot
volumes, you should be able to reassign these letters to suit yourself. I
like to assign my CD/DVDs letters way out in the alphabet (W: for CD-RW and
V: for DVD, for example) to leave the lower letters free for hard drive
volumes, but that is purely personal preference, of course.

RC