Installed Win Xp on a 32 Gb NTFS partition - how can I format the full 80 Gb?

[Prodigy^]

i was helping a friend setting up windows xp pro, and we were unable to boot from the CD for some strange reason. so we went into win98 installed on his (now old) hard drive, and began installing. after a while we got to that DOSish screen where you select partitions, and we could choose either to install to the win98 drive, or his new 80 gig seagate drive. but, it would only partition up to 32 Gb on the 80 gig drive. we did, and now Xp is installed fine on that drive, but of course we want to patition the full 80 gigs.

i totally forgot what i did when i installed my Xp (although this was straight from the CD rom). can anyone help? i'd prefer to have one partition with all 80 gigs (if possible without reinstalling xp), although i guess it won't hurt if we just add another partition on the drive.

thanks!

 

[ozone13]

Go into Disk Management and there you should be able to see the "unused" portion of the harddrive. If you cannot see that, then your harddrive is set for "legacy"....thats just a jumper on the harddrive itself.

There's no way for you to make it a whole 80gb partition w/o reinstalling xp UNLESS you install third party software like Partition Magic.

 

[n0cmonkey]

If you were limited to 32gB you either have a hardware issue or are using crap like FAT32.

 

[Megatomic]

Convert the drive to NTFS if it's not already. Then convert the disk to Dynamic. Then you can extend the C:\ volume to take up all the unallocated space on the disk (assuming you want all that space in one volume).

LMK how that works.

ps - PM me if you need details on how to do the above.

 

[Derango]

I would recommend going out and buying partition magic if you don't have it over converting to a dynamic disk. If somthing ever happens to that disk, any type of recovery is going to be almost impossible because of the dynamic disk.

Dynamic Disk's are evil!