Partition magic problem

[1pyro]

I just reformatted my hard drive and when I got to the point that asks which partition I wanted to use it showed my other partition as drive F:, along with C:. This was correct since I had added another partition with Part. magic. But, I screwed up by trying to hit delete on partiton F: which it appeared it had. I then chose to install on partition C: This seemed to be going the way I had hoped and the re-install went smooth. But, when I looked at my C: drive after the re-install to confirm my HD space available, it only showed about 25 gigs. It is an 80 gig HD. Can anybody tell me what I did wrong? and give advice on how to resolve this. I realize another re-format is in the very near future, but if I use Part. magic again how can I avoid this same scenario? I thought by deleting that partition and then reformatting C: should have been the ticket.

Thanks,:disgust:

svfdfireman

 

[fuzzynavel]

I think what you did was delete the partition which in this case is between 45 and 60 GB....this space is now unformatted space.......you have 2 options......

1.. install partition magic again and it should find your unallocated space.....you will then be able to re-assign this as a new partition or in newer versions of partition magic you can actually extend the size of the other partition by adding the space on!

2.. use Fdisk from a DOS boot disk to allocate the free space..

Hope this helps!

Edit:: having just re-read your post.......what file system are you using?? is it Fat 32 or NTFS.....if one partition is fat 32 and the other is NTFS then if you install windows on the fat32 partition then it will not be able to see the NTFS partition

 

[1pyro]

My file system is NTFS for both partitions.

Thanks for the reply.

I'm not that well versed in DOS or FDISK for that matter. I'll probaly try your first suggestion.

Thanks,