Missing approx. 120 GB of my hard disk drive

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olivia.tang

When I count the space of all partitions, I come up with 130GB instead
of 250 GB. So, where did 120GB go?


Partition 1: 30 GB Windows XP Pro SP 2 live here
Partition 2: 30 GB
Partition 3: 70 GB This partition was supposed to be the dumping
grounds of 190GB.

Hard Drive: Western Digital Caviar SE16 250GB

This is a new computer that my friend put together for me.
Unfortunately, he's out of town for the weekend and I really want to
fix it as soon as possible.



Thanks,
Maaya
 
Hi,

Did your friend install the original "gold" version of WindowsXP without the
service packs? If so, then you didn't get the proper support for 48-bit LBA
and were limited to roughly 127GB of drive space. Run diskmgmt.msc and see
what this tells you about available space on the drive.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
Rick said:
Hi,

Did your friend install the original "gold" version of WindowsXP without the
service packs? If so, then you didn't get the proper support for 48-bit LBA
and were limited to roughly 127GB of drive space. Run diskmgmt.msc and see
what this tells you about available space on the drive.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
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diskmgmt.msc told me that I had 104GB that was unallocated.
Anyways, I managed to create another partion from that and it works
now.
Thanks a lot for your help.
 
"Balderdash" ??? I have not heard that for a while.
Rates up there with "shatterpated" !! But I do
agree that it does not slow things down - at least
I have never seen any sign of that. I still remember
when 20 meg partitions were HUGE. Come to
think of it, I still have some 8" double sided floppies
down stairs in my "archive" ;-)

mikey
 
diskmgmt.msc told me that I had 104GB that was unallocated.
Anyways, I managed to create another partion from that and it works
now.
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You ended up slicing the that last 190GB into 2 pieces but you
could've had it as one partition. Like Rick said, you probably don't
have SP-1 installed at a minimum (or SP-2 to include the 48-bit
addressing support added in SP-1). If you want to merge those 70 and
104GB partitions, you'll need to use something other than what comes
in Windows to do it (i.e., a 3rd party tool, like Partition Manager),
or you could delete those partitions and make one big "dumping"
partition (as you called it) and then create one big new partition.
 
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