Unallocated Partition

[AR]

I recently bought a new Hard disk to replace a crash disk type maxtor
80GByte. So when I install the WinXP HE, it ask whether I wanted partition
which I key-in 2, one 30GByte & balance of 50GByte for Partition 2. But
after installing WinXP, only 1 partition was installed as Partition 0 and
Win XP did not install the other partition. When I check in Device Manager,
it recognise only 1 Drive C: and the unformatted disk as unallocated. How do
I recover the 50GByte whether as ab addition to Drive C: (No partition) or
as another partition, Drive D: ?

[Don Burnette]

AR wrote:
> I recently bought a new Hard disk to replace a crash disk type maxtor
> 80GByte. So when I install the WinXP HE, it ask whether I wanted
> partition which I key-in 2, one 30GByte & balance of 50GByte for
> Partition 2. But after installing WinXP, only 1 partition was
> installed as Partition 0 and Win XP did not install the other
> partition. When I check in Device Manager, it recognise only 1 Drive
> C: and the unformatted disk as unallocated. How do I recover the
> 50GByte whether as ab addition to Drive C: (No partition) or as
> another partition, Drive D: ?

You should be able to make the second partition active in XP's computer
management - go to control panel, adminsitrative tools, and disk management.
Right click on the unallocated partition, and mark it as active. You can
also format it from there as well if needed.

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Don Burnette

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[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

Start/run diskmgmt.msc, you can use this tool to create a second partition
with the remainder of the drive space. You can also right-click "My
Computer" and selct manage.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone -
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Win98 Help - www.rickrogers.org

"AR" > wrote in message
...
> I recently bought a new Hard disk to replace a crash disk type maxtor
> 80GByte. So when I install the WinXP HE, it ask whether I wanted partition
> which I key-in 2, one 30GByte & balance of 50GByte for Partition 2. But
> after installing WinXP, only 1 partition was installed as Partition 0 and
> Win XP did not install the other partition. When I check in Device
> Manager,
> it recognise only 1 Drive C: and the unformatted disk as unallocated. How
> do
> I recover the 50GByte whether as ab addition to Drive C: (No partition) or
> as another partition, Drive D: ?
>
>