wow i did something stupid

[whatever]

hey i really scrowed up now. i formated my computer
which was
windows xp home
c: 16gb
d: 59gb
h: 20gb

i formated and now
i have windows xp professional
drive c and d were one drive.
and h was seprate.
h: --> c: 20gb
c:+d: --> d: 30gb
now i made h my common drive. what i mean is i made drive h my master
drive and so windows installed there.
and i deleted the partion on drive c and d now c and d together only
have 30.1 gb of space what happened and how do i fix this.

sorry about misspelling. i have not installed word yet to spell check
for me.

 

[whatever]

um i am not sure about this but i also changed teh place where i put
the pin on the big harddrive. does the pin placement matter when it
comes to how many gbs a hard drive is.
the pins were first set as
:::|
now i have them like this
|:::
i didn't take the harddrive out so see what where the slave pin was. i
have a mini tower. we all know that it is hell to open up a mini tower.

 

[Guest]

Hi Whatever:

Your explanation and your math escape me a little bit. Would you try again
please? This is my understanding of the actions you have taken:

You have a 95g hard drive which WAS partitioned:
c: 16gb
d: 59gb
h: 20gb

A 95g hard drive? This seems a bit odd actually. Your old XP Home was
installed on C? Was there an E, F & G? Any others? What were the other
partitions for? Especially, did you have another Operating System installed?


In preparation for installing your new O/S (XP Pro), you formatted whcih
partition(s)? All of them? What did you use to format and partition the
space(s)? The XP Pro Installation CD?

IF* you used the XP Pro installation wizard to format and partition AND* XP
Pro is working fine, AND* you have not lost any second Operating System which
might have been installed AND* you have not lost track of any data AND* you
have not lost any usable (allocated NFTS) storage space on the hard drive,
THEN* you probably don't have any problem. It does not matter what you call
the partition (call it Z if you like) as long as everything is pointed in the
right direction at boot-up. Also, most software applications today will run
from wherever they are placed when installed as long as Windows knows where
they are.

If you have not gotten too far in installing many applications and lots of
data at this point, AND you want to try a cleaner install with a more typical
partition design, then go ahead-- redo it--just be more careful about your
answers to the installation CD's prompts. The simplest design for most users
is to have ONE partition for everything.

Let us know how it is going

Mark

 

[GHalleck]

um i am not sure about this but i also changed teh place where i put
the pin on the big harddrive. does the pin placement matter when it
comes to how many gbs a hard drive is.
the pins were first set as
:::|
now i have them like this
|:::
i didn't take the harddrive out so see what where the slave pin was. i
have a mini tower. we all know that it is hell to open up a mini tower.

The system is totally screwed...in a way. Just what do you want
to do? That is, there is a HD of approx. 80 GB and a second HD of
just 20 GB. What next? What was your plan before formatting the
hard drive and running Windows XP setup?

 

[whatever]

ok let me draw this out as a tree

hd 1 -|c:15gb
|d:59gb
hd2 - |h:20gb
hd 1 was master
hd 2 was slave
now hd 1is slave
and hd2 is master
hd 1 is forated so there isn't a partition any more.

hd 2 as master now is runing xp pro
hd 1 as slave now is runing empty and only 30gb

 

[whatever]

ok i fixed it. i toke the hard drive out and it said that on master it
was 75 gb and everything else was 32 gb. unless i take off the pin
which forces it to be slave. then its 75 gb again

 

[Uncle Grumpy]

ok i fixed it. i toke the hard drive out and it said that on master it
was 75 gb and everything else was 32 gb. unless i take off the pin
which forces it to be slave. then its 75 gb again

The hard drive will the the same size whether it's installed as master
or slave.

The "fix" for your computer is for it to find a new owner.