Disk Formatting
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inamhaque
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Disk Formatting
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Hi,

I recently configured a system with XP professional, that has a hard drive of 200 GB capacity. While I installed the OS, I created a disk partition of 80 GB and 110 GB from availble space. I installed the OS on 80 GB capacity partition, but when OS is installed I can't see the other 110 GB partition?

How can I access that partition/foramt it?

Thanking You and Best Regards
ASKED: Nov 7 2005  5:39 AM GMT
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Hello...

Need more information...what processor and motherboard are you running in machine. This sounds like the 110gb disk size may be beyond the capacity of the processor/motherboard.

One method to try is to bring up command prompt and address the hard drive. If you cannot see it there, reboot in safe mode and try to see the partition from there. Have you tried to bring up fdisk and display drive information? If you can see if from fdisk, you can partition the 110 into 1-60gb & 1-50gb partition, leaving you with 3 partitions on the hard drive.
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Go into disk management on XP, and then create a partition from the unused space. Then format it and assign it a drive letter. To go into disk management, right click on my computer, choose, management, and then choose disk management.
Last Answered: Oct 28 2009  2:27 PM GMT by Nnf97   3340 pts.
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enreynolds   0 pts.  |   Nov 7 2005  9:32AM GMT

Right click “My Computer”, select “Manage”. Expand “Storage”, if not already expanded, and select “Disk Management”. Here you should find your unformated missing partition. Format it, assign a drive letter or mount it in an empty folder, and you should be set.

Eric

 

bit4man   0 pts.  |   Nov 9 2005  11:47AM GMT

When you say “see” the drive, I’m assuming you mean from “my computer” ?? If so, unformatted partitions will not show up there. At least not always.

New disks are done in the disk administrator - which you find under your computer management, and “disk management”. Use it to create, update, delete partitions, and to format them. When you’ve done both, the disk will appear in “my computer” (sometimes a reboot is necessary). Make sure you have assigned drive letter - it’s on by default, but easy to uncheck.

 

djlsky   0 pts.  |   Nov 10 2005  8:09AM GMT

If you used the XP install option to format the drive then you need to follow enreynolds process. XP install only formats (builds a file system) on the first drive (C:) but partitions (splits) the hard drive into two partitions. The second partion is NOT formatted which is why you can’t “see” it. Its easy to do with the disk managment app. You can also use Fdisk but why fight it use the GUI it works great. Depending on the use of the machine you may want to shrink the C: drive down to 6-10gig and make the rest of the drive your data area(s). Having a smaller C: drive improves startup and maintenance (defrag, sys bu etc.)performance. I always ghost my drive after installing the OS and core apps w/o data. This makes recovery a snap and simplifies data backup by not having to bu the OS. djl

 

vonsim   0 pts.  |   Nov 10 2005  8:40AM GMT

At the Desktop:
Select:-
Control Panel
Administrative Tools
Computer Management
Disk Management
Highlight the unformatted disk
Right click on it
Then select format option

 

inamhaque   15 pts.  |   Nov 10 2005  9:23AM GMT

Thank you guys, Its done, I did it through disk management.
Its all ok, Thank you once again, appriciate your time and efforts.

 
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