Did XP upgrade partition my hard drive?

[OJ]

Hiya,

Just upgraded from 98 to XP. Suddenly, my HD says it is full, and
that I only have 12.6 gigs total space on there. Now, I know it isn't
a 12.6 gig hard drive. Maybe 20, maybe 40...I can't remember.

However, no tool I can find tells me that it is anymore than 12-13
ish. The XP disk management tool, "Partition Manager".

I thought I could extend it with the diskpart program, but apparently,
it since it was a basic disk on FAT32, and now I've converted to NTFS,
I can't do that.

What the heck is going on here, and how can I fix this without
reinstalling and losing all my data? I'm tired of copying stuff.

oj

 

[GateKeeper]

Is it possible that you backed up your old operating system? That is
one of the options when upgrading, so that you can uninstall WinXP if
you so desire. Backing up the old OS might account for the loss of
space. Also, if you opted for a dual boot system, then XP would indeed
have partitioned your hard drive. In that case, Disk Management would
have shown at least two partitions.

 

[OJ]

Is it possible that you backed up your old operating system? That is
one of the options when upgrading, so that you can uninstall WinXP if
you so desire. Backing up the old OS might account for the loss of
space. Also, if you opted for a dual boot system, then XP would indeed
have partitioned your hard drive. In that case, Disk Management would
have shown at least two partitions.

Hi,

When I converted to NTFS, it did tell me that if I did, I wouldn't be
able to uninstall XP, which was fine, so I guess it did back it up.
Once I converted, I had a gig or so free, which I attributed to
redistribution of things, but maybe it cleared out the old os. Is
there a way to make sure that 98 is gone?

Disk management won't let me even add new partitions on my drive, or
convert to a dynamic disk. My XP Pro laptop gives me the dynamic disk
option when I right-click on disk 0, but I also don't see anything to
let me create partitions in there.

oj

 

[GateKeeper]

Unfortunately, your question is way over my head. Stick around; someone
with more knowledge than I will be along shortly.