Help with partitions !!!

[Zukatah]

I've just fdisk my 40gig disk to delete the C: and D: partitions so I could perform a clean install of WinXP Pro using only a C: partition of 40 gigs. After the fdisk, I installed windows. In the partition selection, there were two spaces (my old drives) even though I deleted them in fdisk. I installed XP and when it fired up it showed as installed in drive f: with the size of my old c:
So i've got 32gigs unallocated and a F: instead of a C:
How can I change the F: to become the C: and make it 32 gigs larger ?

I've never really used fdisk before and I don't know how partition magic works

Any help is VERY much appreciated

 

[CoDerEd]

look at the jumper, you probably set it up tp 32Gb limitation
after that you supposed erase everything on fdisk, reboot
and create new partition with full size.

I guess you never have problem with it before because
when you make drive c and d none of them more than 32gb
now when you want to make it all on drive c it creates the limitation.

good luck

 

[Bglad]

I'm not sure what 32G jumper CoderEd is talking about. Even so, if that were the case, I think you would have a 32G partition rather than 32G of empty space.

If you don't know FDISK very well, you probably didn't get the partitions removed properly. It takes several steps. Did you check them in FDISK before exiting?

Anyway here are your options. Partition Magic will change partitioning for you. You can read about changing the drive letters in XP in the FAQ's.

However, if you just installed and haven't done much work, I would just reinstall XP. When you install XP it will ask if you want to remove/install partitions of any size and format them for you. You don't need FDISK with XP.

 

[Zukatah]

i've just reinstalled XP
now I only have 32gigs... damn limitation even though my bios (latest bios for AbitBE6) shows I have a 40gigs WD. I don't really care about the 8 gigs, I have only 1 month left with that computer and I'll get anoter 40 gigs with my new rig and I'll be allright =)

Thanks guys