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A real hard drive conundrum.

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Stinkfinger

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The drive is a Western Digital WDC WD2000jd-55HBB0, a 200GB Serial ATA hd. It shows up correctly in device manager, but when I installed it in my new pc today and went to format it, it told me there was only 130GB unpartitioned space.

How do I get my other 70GB? Being that its not formatted I'm guessing I'll have to make another partition? That's preferable actually. Can I and how would I go about remedying this?

Thx
 
Originally posted by: Stinkfinger
I have SP2 installed. Are you saying I should have SP1 installed before installing the drive?
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no you don't need SP1 in that case. do you have the latest BIOS for your board?

EDIT: Wait you have an SATA drive, this shouldn't be a problem. Maybe WD partitioned it already for people who don't have SP1 or SP2 installed. Can you actually see the other 70gb?
 
Do you have XP Pro? If so check the Disk Management MMC (right-click My Computer->Manage->Storage->Disk Management) to see if the rest shows up as Unpartitioned space. If so, you should be able to extend the partition. Otherwise you have two choices: 1. Buy a third party program such as Partition Magic and have it extend the partition for you or 2. Slipstream SP2 onto a CD so that you install w/SP2 initially.

Here is a thread about choice two -> click me.
 
Did you try what ohnnyj suggested? You can repartition the whole drive through disk management.

Just make sure you're messing with the right drive.
 
I just checked again now and now the other 60GB is now showing up in disc manager. I tried a bunch of stuff but couldn't get it to merge with the C: It is unformatted space, so am I going to need to create a new partition?
 
If you haven't used any of the space that's already on the drive, then you can format the existing partition, and just make one big one. Otherwise you'd have to just make a new partition.

You can extend and merge partitions if you have some 3rd party software like Powerquest Partition Magic or something.
 
You can extend and merge partitions if you have some 3rd party software like Powerquest Partition Magic or something.
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Does anyone know if there's a free utility that does this? I can't justify spending the money on a program that I'll use once.
 
Originally posted by: Stinkfinger
You can extend and merge partitions if you have some 3rd party software like Powerquest Partition Magic or something.
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Does anyone know if there's a free utility that does this? I can't justify spending the money on a program that I'll use once.
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I know of no free program, so your only option may be to slipstream SP2 such as this guide -> click me. It says you need Nero but you can download a free demo version that will let you do what you need to do.

You could even contact Microsoft, they may be able to do something for you (although I doubt it, but you never know).
 
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