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Old August 29th 05, 05:38 AM
Dick
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Default SP2 and Hard Disk

Introduction: Just an old retired computer USER that gets into a lot of
trouble.

I am not sure that it is the problem of the SP2 but did not have the problem
before installing it.
I have an Asus P4P800 Delux with chip set 865PE Intel Pent. 4 3.0 GHz
Serial ATA Controller.
I had a 200GB hard drive partitioned 80gb and 120gb. and a 30gb HD as the
boot drive. The problem started in that the boot drive only showed 8gb
capacity. The rest had to be there but not formated and I did not know how
to handle that so I removed that drive and installed a 40GB HD as the primary
drive. Before installing the new drive I disconnected the 200GB HD to ensure
a clean installation and installed all the programs I had on the original
drive includeing XP SP2 from a disk provided from Microsoft.
The Problem... When I reconnected the 200GB HD only one partiction is shown
and when I check the system properties under Volumes, I shows 191GB capacity
but the volume shows only 40gb and is not assigned a drive letter. Also it
does not show up on "My Computer"
Does anyone have any idea what my problem is.
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