Incorreect reporting of Hard disk space.

[Guest]

I have a 250 Gb Hdd in this system. The Bios reports correctly and appears
not errors.
Windows XP only report 130Gb of hard disk This was the amount of free space
that the frice had before this problem happened. Tryed reinstalling the OS.
The OS only found the empty space as unalocated space. How do I recover the
other 100 Gb.

THere is data on that area that I would like if possible to recover but it
is not nessary. It can be rebuilt. Sensive data was backed up (thankfully).\

Help appreciated

thanks

James

 

[Rich Barry]

James, install SP2. Once installed XP will recognize the additional 100Gigs.
You will have to rt click MyComputer>select
Manage>Disk Management. Create a Logical Partition with the recovered
space.