HD size troubles

[iamWolverine]

Just built my first system, intel p4 3ghz, Abit 1c7-g mb, 512 pc3500 ram, + hitachi sata 160gb hd.
when i booted it up for the first time, after checking everything in bios was ok, i continued to install winxp, but it detected my HD as 130 all unpartitioned / unformatted . . . I made several partitions and continued to install just because i wanted to get on with it, but really dont like the idea of missing 30 gigs for no reason. Any help with this ? (oh yeah, i formatted ntfs, although dont think that should really matter). If need more info, let me know, thanks for all the help

 

[bacillus]

have a read here

 

[iamWolverine]

actually, seems like many people are having this trouble, and found a solution here with MS, trying it now

 

[iamWolverine]

how can i identify an unpartitioned space in my HD now tho?

 

[Fuchs]

If you're all set and the computer see's all of the disk. Right-click My Computer and go to Manage, then disk management. It should show a portion of the disc unused. (unparition space i think). You should be able to create another partition from this space merely by right-clicking on the graphic.

 

[iamWolverine]

yay it worked . . . thanks a bunch