How do I reclaim all my hard drive

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Hi Guys,
I have and 80gig Hard drive and partitioned it to put xandros Linux (or
should I say the xandros partitioned it automatically)on to see what it was
like. Anyway to cut along story short, I decided to re install Xp on the
whole drive again, have a problem(well to me). When I re installed Xp, it
only recognised half the drive that xp was already on, how do I reclaim the
whole drive, or where do I find info on how to do it
thanks for your help, yep I know curiosity killed the cat well I hope not
Regards
Bob
 
Use Disk Management to examine the drive structure ( See how
it is partitioned/formatted). Click Start, Run (Type) Diskmgmt.msc
[Enter]
A graphical display will show the drive layout.

As to recovering space, you cannot expand an XP partition after
the install - unless you use a 3rd-Party disk management tool like
Partition Magic or the like. If you simply want to utilize the former
Linux space you'll need to delete those partitions which will leave
"Unallocated Space". Once the Penguin partitions are gone, you
can partition and format the space to your liking.
 
Hi Mc,
thanks for the help that worked a treat, much appreciated
Regards
Bob


R. McCarty said:
Use Disk Management to examine the drive structure ( See how
it is partitioned/formatted). Click Start, Run (Type) Diskmgmt.msc
[Enter]
A graphical display will show the drive layout.

As to recovering space, you cannot expand an XP partition after
the install - unless you use a 3rd-Party disk management tool like
Partition Magic or the like. If you simply want to utilize the former
Linux space you'll need to delete those partitions which will leave
"Unallocated Space". Once the Penguin partitions are gone, you
can partition and format the space to your liking.

BH2 said:
Hi Guys,
I have and 80gig Hard drive and partitioned it to put xandros Linux (or
should I say the xandros partitioned it automatically)on to see what it
was like. Anyway to cut along story short, I decided to re install Xp on
the whole drive again, have a problem(well to me). When I re installed
Xp, it only recognised half the drive that xp was already on, how do I
reclaim the whole drive, or where do I find info on how to do it
thanks for your help, yep I know curiosity killed the cat well I hope
not
Regards
Bob
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