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On Oct 19, 1:09 pm, "Lynsey Doyle" wrote:
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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.../Computer/Comp...

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

Have you formatted the disk? If not do so. Right click on the disk in
'My Computer'. A Quick Format will do

Thanks.

I just re-formatted, but it appears to have changed nothing.

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.

You've reformatted the same partition, seen next to it, in disk
management, where you have 448 gb unallocated, the rest of the disk
therefore. That"s the partion you need to format. You'll end up with two
partitions, the one you've seen and the rest. Under XP fdisk will allow
you to erase the first partition and make the whole disk into just one
partition. In the Run menu of XP (via the Start button) type cmd then,
in the windows that opens, type fdisk or fdisk /? for help with the
syntax (space before the /)