hard drive size incorrect

[delangford]

i initially had may 80 GB hard drive partitioned into two 40s. i have
XP MCE, installed on the first one. on the second i was playing around
with linux and what not. recently i deleted the last partitions and
expanded the size of the first with a live cd. When i go to the
properties of my only local disk, C:, it save i have 31.3 GB free with
a total space of 40 GB. now i know that the first thing that will be
suggested is that although i deleted the partitions i didn't
successfully expand the first partition. HOWEVER: in Computer
Management, under Storage, Disk Managment it shows my one hard disk
FULLY partitioned in ntfs. All 74.53 GB, no breaks, no unpartioned
space. I even opened it back up on my live cd and it sees the entire
partition as ntfs with no breaks or unpartitioned space.

any ideas on what i have overlooked? do i need to image, format, and
ghost?

i'm running out of space to record tv shows and "the Office" starts
next week, HELP, i could use 40 more gigs!

Thanks in advance

 

[JS]

If you already have Ghost it might be the simplest thing to do. Just make
certain when restoring the image that you tell Ghost to use the entire (new)
partition and not to create/restore a partition as that would put you back
to the original (40GB) partition size.

JS

 

[Gerry]

Which utility did you use to mofy the partition?

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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[delangford]

i used the partition editor on the ubuntu 7.04 live CD, which i have
used many times in the past and has always worked fantastic. i have
done similar jobs with it recently (successfully) - it has always been
great at resizing ntfs partitions without losing data.

i was hoping i just looked over something simple, it seems that i will
have to backup, delete and recreate partitions and restore.