Lost 200gb hard drive space after reformatting. How do i get it back?

[hanson2k8]

Similar situation to this thread,

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1439450&page=1

However i don't have any unused disk space XP believes that my maximum hard drive space is 200GB less than the real value.
I have no options in the XP disk management tool to use unallocated space.
i have tried reinstalling the OS and starting the partitions from fresh, and failed.
How do i regain the full space back?

 

[vacunita]

More information is needed, does the BIOS recognize the full size of the drive. What did you format it into FAT32, NTFS? What does disk management say? How big was the drive originally.

You might need a third party tool, to get to see the full size of the drive, that is if the BIOS can see the full size.





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[ceh4702]

XP tries to preserve old user info sometimes.

You deleted all old partitions?

Go to the drive manufacturers website and get a utility to write 1/0 to the entire drive wiping out any hidden data. This erases the MBR and everything.

I think there is a command to rewrite the MBR you might try. I dont see how you lost 200GB unless there is a partition windows can not read and can not erase like Linux or some kind of Encrypted data.

If you do not like my post feel free to point out your opinion or my errors.

 

[Freestone]

In addition to vacunita's question, what Service Pack level is your XP install disk at? XP needs to be at least at SP1 to support drives larger than 137GB and requires support from BIOS too. See

http://www.48bitlba.com

and

http://www.48bitlba.com/winxp.htm

 

[hanson2k8]

Sorry for the very slow response. I have managed to figure out the problem, sorry for wasting your time.

 

[kjv1611]

hanson2k8,

What was the problem?

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[acewarlock]

Your only wasting our time if you don't tell us what the fix was, even if it was just something DUMB you did.




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