Partitions during XP install

[Fraggle257]

Hi all!

I am hoping you can help! I have recently just installed XP Pro SP2 on
my P4 2.4 GHz machine. My pc was previously partitioned running Win 98
into to 2 partions, one of 15GB (C and the other of the rest of my
80GB hard drive (D. I went for a total fresh install and must have
gone wrong somewhere when it asked my where I wanted to install XP
because I can now only see one drive (C with a size of 15GB. I tried
to delete the old partition during the install and suspect this is
where I went wrong. I am generally fairly competent with pcs but I
have never done a total operating system install before! All of my
data is backed up, so please suggest anything, I don't need any of
the data that was on the old D drive, just to get the space back.

My question is straight forward, is there anyway of rectifying this
without going back to square one and starting all over again, and if I
do have to start again with a total re-install again, does anyone have
any tips to avoid making the same mistake again!

Any advice gratefully received! Many thanks in advance!

Fraggle

 

[Patti MacLeod]

Hi Fraggle257,

Open the Disk Management snap-in (Start>Run key in diskmgmt.msc then click
on OK). In the lower pane of the Disk Management window, there should be a
graphical representation of the partition(s) on your hard drive. Besides the
entry for your C drive, what is displayed there for the remainder of the 80G
drive........is it unallocated or unpartitioned space?



Regards,