New Hard drive

[Guest]

I recently put in a new hard drive in my Vaio. Everything works fine. The
problem is XP only recognized a small portion of the space available. I have
allot of unallocated disk space. How do I take the unallocated disk space
and make accessible?

 

[Ted Zieglar]

Partition and format.

 

[Guest]

Will I lose existing data on the c: drive when I do this?

 

[Ted Zieglar]

Not if you partition and format the blank space.

The way I understood your question, you have a hard disk with only one
partition (C which does not fill the disk. Therefore, the rest of the disk
is not partitioned or formatted.

To partition and format the rest of the disk, open the Disk Management
snap-in (one way is to type diskmgmt.msc in the Start > Run box), partition
the empty area (the partition doesn't have to fill the entire empty area)
and format the partition (suggestion: with NTFS). Windows will assign the
new partition a drive letter when you do this.

For more help, open the Help and Support Center and see this article: To
create a partition or logical drive

 

[Guest]

First of all, thank you Ted for your help. It is appreciated. What I was
wondering, was could I put all my available disk space on the C: drive.
Trying to keep the system compact and clean. Thanks.

 

[Ted Zieglar]

Sure, you can do that, but not with the tools that come with Windows XP.
You'll need Norton Partition Magic (or an equivalent partitioning program)
to do that.