Screwed Up Partitioning

[MulletLover]

I built a computer for the first time tonight and everything seemed to be going well until I tried partitioning the hard drive. I set aside 4GB for Windows to run but I didn't do anything with the rest of the 200GB. How do I get that storage back?

Also, when doing the initial partioning, I saw that Windows was only registering 131GB. How do I make it recognize the remainder. Thanks in advance.

I stink!🙁

EDIT: This is for Windows XP Pro

 

[nweaver]

After you finish the install, put on SP2, and then right click my computer->manage->disk management, should see the rest there, as unallocated. Partition/format/mount as you see fit.

 

[MulletLover]

Sounds good. Now I just hope that I have enough memory to download SP2

 

[MulletLover]

Yeah I don't have enough hard drive space to download SP2. Now what do I do?

 

[Varun]

Start over, and make the Windows partition about 30GB - 50GB instead of 4GB.

 

[MulletLover]

Yes but how do I get back to the point where I am selecting my partition size. I know I will have to start over. I just don't know how to get back to that point.

 

[Varun]

Put the Windows CD in, boot.

It's going to ask restore or new, pick new

Once you get to the screen to pick your partition you can choose to delete, create etc for all of the partitions.

 

[MulletLover]

awesome it looks like that worked. Sorry for the newb questions. Thank you very much.

 

[Varun]

Originally posted by: MulletLover
awesome it looks like that worked. Sorry for the newb questions. Thank you very much.

There's no such thing as n00b questions, only n00b answers!

 

[bendixG15]

Well Mullet, you got it to work.....your not a newb any more...Congratulations...

 

[MulletLover]

Here's another question.

I partitioned the drive into 3. A 40GB, 89GB, 61GB = 190GB on a 200GB hard drive. What happened to 10 of my gigabytes??

 

[TGS]

Some goes to NTFS overhead, and the rest gets lost to the 1000MB = 1GB marketeers.