Hard Drive Help for Windows XP

[Josh Lilly]

A friend of mine is having a problem with his hard drive.
He installed Windows XP on his computer and now his hard
drive only shows less then 8 Gigs (he has a 40 gig hard
drive installed). Does anybody know where the other 32
gigs is, it went MIA or something. Any help would be
appreciated.
Thanks
Josh

[Mike Mulligan]

Did your friend format the other 32 MB of his drive?

Mike Mulligan

"Josh Lilly" > wrote in message
...
> A friend of mine is having a problem with his hard drive.
> He installed Windows XP on his computer and now his hard
> drive only shows less then 8 Gigs (he has a 40 gig hard
> drive installed). Does anybody know where the other 32
> gigs is, it went MIA or something. Any help would be
> appreciated.
> Thanks
> Josh

and how does he do that?
Thanks
>-----Original Message-----
>Did your friend format the other 32 MB of his drive?
>
>Mike Mulligan
>
>"Josh Lilly" > wrote in message
...
>> A friend of mine is having a problem with his hard
drive.
>> He installed Windows XP on his computer and now his hard
>> drive only shows less then 8 Gigs (he has a 40 gig hard
>> drive installed). Does anybody know where the other 32
>> gigs is, it went MIA or something. Any help would be
>> appreciated.
>> Thanks
>> Josh
>
>.
>

[Mike Mulligan]

No problem:

Right-click on My Computer and select Manage.
In the left pane, select Disk Management. The Disk Management snap-in will
open in the right pane.
On the bottom is a graphical view of the entire hard disk.
Right-click anywhere in the unallocated space and select Format.

WARNING: Be sure not to format the 8 GB partition that already exists.

Then go have a cold one to celebrate.

Mike Mulligan


> wrote in message
...
> and how does he do that?
> Thanks
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Did your friend format the other 32 MB of his drive?
> >
> >Mike Mulligan
> >
> >"Josh Lilly" > wrote in message
> ...
> >> A friend of mine is having a problem with his hard
> drive.
> >> He installed Windows XP on his computer and now his hard
> >> drive only shows less then 8 Gigs (he has a 40 gig hard
> >> drive installed). Does anybody know where the other 32
> >> gigs is, it went MIA or something. Any help would be
> >> appreciated.
> >> Thanks
> >> Josh
> >
> >.
> >