dave said:
Hello.
I got some probs with my old hd Seagate Sata 120 gig. I have a new hd WD
160 gig. Using ghost 9.0 i used the tool "upgrade your hard drive" copy
the contents from the 120 to 160 gig drive all wel for now. Now the
problem i got is i can us only 120 gig on a 160 gig drive. I lost 40 gig.
How can i get it back.
Sorry for my bad english.
Cya D@ve....
go into control panel in windows
then go to Administrative Tools (click classic view to the left) if you cant
see Administrative Tools
then click Computer Management
then in the Computer Management in the left side of the pane click
Disk Management
The 160 GB drive should appear in disk management as 160 Gb or close to it
you should have one partition which is probably a partition of 120 GB
the other space or the 40GB you cant see will be unassigned.
This is where i get a bit sketchy
right click the 40 GB un assigned space or Free Space
and choose
New Logical drive
now you may want to choose Extended Partition if you can
if not just choose Logical Drive
it should allow you to use the space again
one problem however is that i dont think it will be set as an NTFS
partition, it might be FAT32
im no wizz on the subject but you could probably get the space back, if it
is free space within an extended partition then it is already sey as NTFS
if the space is just loose and in its own partition you may need to assign a
filesystem im not sure
the thing is you should easilly be able to get back the 40 GB of "lost
space"
download partition magic if you would rather do it simple
I think you can create new partitions with the windows ZP Setup, i do
however think that requires you to format the drive before hand? someone
else here should be able to give more help on the filesystems and stuff, i
have always hated partitioning hard drives
i use the windows setup to do it, never use ghost or anything, i had tried
it but it kind of went a bit wrong for me
the program encountered errors and messed up my other norton products
anyhow HTH
chris
