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Old October 19th 11, 12:28 PM posted to alt.windows-xp,microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware,microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics
Rob
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Default 500GB External HD with XP

On 19/10/2011 11:48, Searcher7 wrote:
I plugged a MAC-formatted 500GB external hard drive into the USB port
of my Windows XP PC which has 20GB and 40GB "C" and "D" drives.

In "Disk Management" I was only given an option to set up a new
partition. Now the drive shows as only 17.76GB.
http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/l...Management.jpg

Can anyone tell me what I did wrong or should do next?

Thanks.

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.


Disk Management probably cannot recognise the Mac partition and
may have only seen free unpartitioned space and used that, hence
the small size.
If it *can* see all partitions and they add up to around 500GB,
just delete them all and create a new one.
Otherwise you will need to use a third-party disk management tool
which can recognize Mac formats and which will need to be run from
a boot CD.
This could be a linux 'live' CD (if you know or want to learn about
linux), or you could download and burn to CD a partition tool, such
as gparted, which should be able to deal with anything, but isn't
always straghtforward to use.
There may be other free partition managers which can do this.
I have used these, but not sure about whether they deal with Mac formats:
Easus, Ranish, Partition Wizard, Cute. There are commercial ones too,
such as Acronis.
HTH
--
Rob



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