Unable to install Vista Home Premium on a large drive

G

Guest

I tried to install Vista HP (upgrade) over a new install of XP. Since SP2
was not on XP, Vista performed a new install (this was not a problem). The
drive is a new 500 GB SATA, and for some reason, Vista only saw 170 GB, and
does not recognize the rest of the drive (unused partition) . I tried it
twice, once without using a disk utility, and the 2nd time using the disk
utility that came with the drive to create 2 partitions formatted with NTFS.

Is there a trick to getting Vista (once installed) to recognize the unused
partition space(s)? It was easy with XP, 2000, 2003 - but I can't find any
utility in Vista!

p1n6w3n
 
R

Richard Urban

If the rest of the drive is unused space (no partitions) you will have to
create a new partition and give it a drive letter.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)
 

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