200gig Hard Drive is Picked up as 30 Gigs

[Pixle]

What would work for a windows xp system. Something that will resize ntfs with and without having to format the hdd.

Is their any program out their?

 

[stu1811]

Do you have SP1?

 

[Pixle]

yes

 

[Pixle]

its a old hdd that I accidently copied a 30gig drive to it and now it only shows as 30 gigs. I installed xp on it and I need to resize the partition. The data disk wd cd doesnt work anymore.

 

[stu1811]

I think you can do this...if the space is marked as free...
Go to control panel-> administrative tools-> computer management, then under storage go to disk management, right click on the free space and merge it with the main partition
***Its a good idea to backup any important data before trying to do anything with partitions

 

[jackschmittusa]

Just partition and format the free space and use 2 partitions. 30gb should be fine for xp and your basic apps.

 

[Pixle]

Im going to have to rma the hdd. I tried using partition magic and it didnt even see the extra space. Nothing is seeing it and thats whats odd even resizing doesnt come up.

 

[CSMR]

Have you checked the jumpers?

 

[savvy]

Norton PartitionMagic will work if you can acquire it. It's not free though. :\

 

[oynaz]

Have you tried the repair software from the manufacturers homepage? It usually does the trick.

 

[Oyeve]

If you have a diskette drive download a win98 boot image from bootdisk.com and run good old fdisk and see what shows up.