Where's my disk space?

The Jester · Post by **The Jester** » 2005-11-12 10:52am

Recently bought a new PC with a (supposed) 200GB SATA hard disk and have been going through all the motions of installing Windows XP on it, partitioning a 6GB drive but have noticed that there is only 120GB worth of unpartitioned hard disk space remaining. The PC was already pre-installed with a version of Windows XP on it, however I wanted to change the language version, and so removed all pre-existing partitions. The BIOS is reporting the HDD correctly, what I would like to know is where the remaining space has gone and how do I get it back.

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2005-11-12 10:59am

Probebly the Windows formatted for only 120GB of space,should you reinstall the computer the windows XP disc will show you all 200GB and let you use them.

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2005-11-12 11:06am

Deleted multiple replys from Ace.

And I thnk that it might have some sort of util partition, be careful about deleteing those, it might be needed for the system

The Jester · Post by **The Jester** » 2005-11-12 11:17am

Faram wrote:Deleted multiple replys from Ace.

And I thnk that it might have some sort of util partition, be careful about deleteing those, it might be needed for the system

How does one go about recovering a util partition?

Darth Mall · Post by **Darth Mall** » 2005-11-12 12:25pm

I had the exact same problem as you when I installed windows. From what I read, it seems as if windows doesn't recognize the extra gb's in the install. I just went in with partition magic and expanded the partition to take up the unused space.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2005-11-12 04:15pm

The original release version of Windows XP did not have a partitioning tool capable of making partitions greater than 120 GB in size. One thing you might try and do is make a 120GB partition and then use some bootable tool to expand it out to its proper size after you've gone to SP2.