Upgrade woes.

Post by **weemadando** » 2006-03-04 04:06am

Just upgraded my box today and did a clean XP install.

I have 1.5gb ram (my old 512 didn't want to talk to the others, so I'm getting another one of the new 512) and a 250gb SATA HDD.

Problem is, being windows, it only recognises ~120gb of that drive. I've tried using partition magic to fix this, but its being a stone cold bitch and not resizing. Any good alternative software?

Tiger Ace · Post by **Tiger Ace** » 2006-03-04 04:09am

Your windows isn't an original XP by any chance? Patch to SP1 atleast and this will go away.

Post by **weemadando** » 2006-03-04 04:16am

SP2 and still having issues.

Tiger Ace · Post by **Tiger Ace** » 2006-03-04 05:26am

weemadando wrote:SP2 and still having issues.

Very weird, since this is an issue that happens to pre-SP1 XP installs.

Post by **weemadando** » 2006-03-04 05:46am

I know.

Its not a fault with the HDD as all of the partitioning software sees it there, but XP won't let me resize it myself. And all the fucking demos/trials I've foudn thus far for partioning software to let me do a non-destructive resize have been non-functional demos (ie, let me look, but not ACTUALLY do anything).

Tiger Ace · Post by **Tiger Ace** » 2006-03-04 05:57am

weemadando wrote:I know.

Its not a fault with the HDD as all of the partitioning software sees it there, but XP won't let me resize it myself. And all the fucking demos/trials I've foudn thus far for partioning software to let me do a non-destructive resize have been non-functional demos (ie, let me look, but not ACTUALLY do anything).

If you have Knoppix you can do it from there.

Post by **weemadando** » 2006-03-04 06:16am

Not yet, though looking at all the Linux options, its fucking tempting./

Xon · Post by **Xon** » 2006-03-04 08:06am

Does windows actually see the drive as 250gb? No amount of partition resizing is going to fix it if Windows does not detect the size of the drive correctly.

Now, if windows does see it as the correct size but the partition isnt covering the entire thing you can use a built utility to expand an ntfs partition.

Start -> run -> "DiskPart.exe" -> type "select volume c:"(the volume to expand) -> extend

Post by **weemadando** » 2006-03-04 08:39am

Well, windows admin tools was seeing a drive that big, but with 120gb of it unallocated. I finally got it fixed after borrowing a friends copy of Norton System Tools that they had. And then I fucked Norton right off my system again.

Thanks to all for assistance.

Vendetta · Post by **Vendetta** » 2006-03-04 08:59am

Why not just stick a second partition in, then if anything unfortunate happens to the filesystem on the main one you can scrub it down without losing the contents of the second?

Post by **weemadando** » 2006-03-04 10:08pm

No big worry at the moment, I've got all of the neccessary bits from my old system sitting around backed up on CDs anyhow. And I have a 2nd 40gb IDE drive sitting there that I might put backup partitions on.