formatting

[bnellenb]

I went and bought a new hard drive and installed it just as the directions stated about 7 months ago. I got an error message tonight saying that I had run out of space and I thought to myself, how could I have used 40 gigs already. I got to looking at my free and used space and it says that my hard drive is only 2 gig.

After much thought, I realize that I used my original recovery disk that came with my pc to format my hard drive. It only recognized 2 gig because that is what came with the pc. Is there any way to get back that other 38 gigs without losing my stuff?

 

[ddwbi0]

 

[Orsorum]

ddwbi0, do you know the penalty for impersonating a mod?

Good, 'cuz neither do I.

 

[hjo3]

You might try PartitionMagic or something like that. Or throw an old 3 gig HD in there and ghost your primary to it, partition/format the primary properly, and ghost the data back.

 

[elzmaddy]

Norton Ghost or Arconis TrueImage can make an image of your hard disk for you and save it to a second hard disk. Then partition and format the drive properly, and transfer it back.