Help - Need to retrieve unallocated hard drive space

[Holobits]

Hello for those of you that read this,
I am looking for some help in retrieveing some unallocated hard drive space. I bought a Seagate Barracuda 120GB EIDE hard drive. I put it in my wifes new computer and when I got to the part where you set-up partitions and such I was aiming for about 40GB partitions. I set-up drives C and D and ther was 35GB left after I partitioned them. It was late and I thought that windows would automatically partition and assign a drive letter to the remaining space. Well I was wrong and now I am looking for a way to retrieve it. The only thing I can think of and I am not sure if it would work would be to buy some partitioning software to see if it will recover the unallocated space. If any of you know if this will work or you know of another way to retrieve the space that would be awesome. Reformatting and redoing a windows XP install would suck so I am throwing that out the door. Thanks for the help and I'll check back here soon. Once again thanks!

 

[karmasalad]

You can create a partition and format the unallocated space using built-in WinXP software.

Go to Start > Programs > Administrative Tools > Computer Management. From there, select Disk Management in the left-hand pane. In the right-hand pane you will see your hard drive listed with the C: and D: drives, plus a chunk of unallocated space. All you have to do is right-click the unallocated space, and then choose to create a partition.

If you don't see Administrative Tools in your Start menu: right-click the Start button > Properties > Start Menu tab > Customize > Advanced > Start menu items > scroll down to bottom of list to System Administrative Tools > Display on the All Programs menu.

Hope this helps.

 

[OMG1Penguin]

Run- mmc

add console, disk management

create a volume with the unpartitioned space~

 

[Holobits]

Thanks very much Karmasalad!! It worked and I appreciate the post.