partition problem

[Bryan Boyne]

I just installed a new 60gb HD. During the setup I chose
to create a 30gb partition. The system does not show a
second drive letter and indicates a total of 30gb on the
drive.
What did I do wrong and how can I fix it?
Thanks for any help.
Bryan

[goodguy_98]

On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 17:21:42 -0700, "Bryan Boyne" >
wrote:

>I just installed a new 60gb HD. During the setup I chose
>to create a 30gb partition. The system does not show a
>second drive letter and indicates a total of 30gb on the
>drive.
>What did I do wrong and how can I fix it?
>Thanks for any help.
>Bryan

The remainder of it is free space until you create other partitions
and format them. There is no indiction of free space when you look
at the system except in fdisk or the disk manager. It's there, but not
allocated to anything.

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Bryan;
Use Disk Management for the unallocated space:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=309000

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"Bryan Boyne" > wrote in message
...
> I just installed a new 60gb HD. During the setup I chose
> to create a 30gb partition. The system does not show a
> second drive letter and indicates a total of 30gb on the
> drive.
> What did I do wrong and how can I fix it?
> Thanks for any help.
> Bryan

[Alex Nichol]

Bryan Boyne wrote:

>I just installed a new 60gb HD. During the setup I chose=20
>to create a 30gb partition. The system does not show a=20
>second drive letter and indicates a total of 30gb on the=20
>drive.
>What did I do wrong and how can I fix it?

You need now to make a second partition in the rest of the drive (which
will appear with an as-yet unused letter in My Computer). Control Panel
- Admin Tools - Computer Management, select Disk Management and look
lower right for the graphic of the drive.. R-click in the Unallocated
space and 'create Partition, carrying through to format it


--=20
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K.