TonyP said:
I have a 10gig HD. It shows up fine in DOS and BIOS, but when it comes up
in Windows, it only shows up as a 5gig....?
This sounds as if, when it was initially set up, only a 5GB partition
was made. The rest of the disk may be sitting idle, or it *may* (if
this is an OEM installation - say an HP machine) be in use for
restoration of the system if things fail (though that would be a very
large proportion to use for this). As a start, Control Panel - Admin
Tools - Computer Management, select Disk Management and look lower right
for the graphic of the drive. If it shows a 5GB partition and
'Unallocated space' beyond, then you have the choice of immediately
r-clicking in that unallocated space and Create Partition, going on the
Format, and use this as a second drive for data, or of getting third
party software to expand the C: partition. I'd settle for the second
data partition
If it shows some other partition there, I would read the manuals
carefully to see what it might be intended for
