Patitions

[Guest]

Ok, got Windows XP Home, and a 120 gig harddrive. It allows me to have 30 gig harddrive partition after I installed, why?, or most importantly, what can I do to get all 120 gigs useable?

 

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

Ok, got Windows XP Home, and a 120 gig harddrive. It allows me to
have 30 gig harddrive partition after I installed, why?, or most
importantly, what can I do to get all 120 gigs useable?

If this was a new hard drive, it's likely that you formatted the drive with
the FAT32 file system during the XP installation. XP cannot format a FAT32
partition larger than 32GB. You will need to either reinstall XP and
reformat the drive as NTFS or reformat the drive using a Windows 98 boot
disk as one 120 GB partition in FAT32 before reinstalling XP.

Limitations of the FAT32 File System in Windows XP:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q314463

310525 Description of the FAT32 File System in Windows XP:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q310525

 

[Guest]

OMG thank you soo much, it worked great! ( re-installing ) Thank you again! ^_^

 

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

OMG thank you soo much, it worked great! ( re-installing ) Thank you
again! ^_^

Glad this helped. Enjoy all of that space.