I recently reinstalled Win2000 pro on my Pentium III PC. The hard drive is 20 GB, but when I look in the C: properties it reads the hard drive as (2.0 GB) with only 442 MB of free space left. It was a fresh reinstall and has no programs installed at all. I am also running 512 MB RAM.
Is this a properties (read) error or what went wrong and how can I correct this? Thanks for your help
2006-06-23 18:29:22 · 7 answers · asked by salsaman 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
The easiest way to find out if your Hard Drive has a partition or Partitions to your Drive is to go to My Computer and open it up. See if there is more than one Drive not including your CD Rom Drive. For example, I have a partition on my Hard Drive and when I open up My Computer it Say's C Drive then D Drive and then my CD/DVD drive. If it does not show you there then you want to right click on My Computer, click on properties. Your System Properties will open up and click on the tab that Say's Hardware then click on the Device Manager box. This opens up your Device Manager. Go to were it Say's Disk drives, click on the cross and look and see how many Drives it Say's you have. If all of that fails and it is not reading correctly then I would have to agree if you are familiar with it to use the program Partition magic. Sometimes things can get real complex in ones mind so think simple if you have a Techs sort of mind. Good luck and I hope everything works out for you. It is there somewhere just lost don't worry everything has a fix and an answer simple or not.
Michele
2006-06-23 19:53:25 · answer #1 · answered by Michie 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Looks like when Windows asked you for a partition size you entered 2000 (2048 MB) instead of 20000 (20480 MB).
Go to computer management in control panel and click disk management. In the right pane check the size of your primary partition (Dark blue). Here you can see if you have any unpartitioned space. You can create other partitions from here.
2006-06-23 19:17:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are fammiliar with partitioning, then check for other partitions on your hard drive using a partitioner such as Partition Magic.
If you are unfammiliar with partitioning, it basically turns your hard drive into as many smaller hard drives as you want. It doesn't physically make another hard drive, but your computer will recognize them as separate hard drives.
Download partition magic and find any other partitions on your hard drive. Find and delete any of them other than your Windows XP partition. If you are unsure of which one it is, look for a partition formatted in NTFS or FAT32.
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2006-06-23 18:37:43 · answer #3 · answered by K4P741N_KRUNCH 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes I agree, you may have partitioned the drive when reinstalling Windows. You can use Partition Magic to merge them again. Or you can goto Download.com and search for a free partitioning utility.
2006-06-23 18:35:39 · answer #4 · answered by Mr. Me 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My advice would be to upgrade your BIOS so that it can be able to see bigger hard disk drive this is by flashing your BIOS. Try to enable LBA in the BIOS.
2006-06-23 20:58:37 · answer #5 · answered by Mambwe 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My guess is you have the drive partitioned.
2006-06-23 18:33:49 · answer #6 · answered by lwcomputing 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you harddrive sounds screwed or you may have other partitions on the drive wipe harddrive clean and partition your harddrive
2006-06-23 18:35:56 · answer #7 · answered by Big Stev 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋