Un-partitioning harddrive.

[clidey]

Hello, a few months ago I bought a new computer with a Japanese WIndows OS on it. It had 230GB on it, and when I changed it to English OS, which was right away, It partitioned in a wierd way as there was no Japanese OS, which I didn't want a Japanese OS anyway, but now there is only 127GB, and only one OS.

How do I get the other 100GB back without losing data? It just acts as if it isn't even there.

 

[LWComputingMVP]

You probably installed XP with no service pack - you need Service Pack 1 or later to support ATA/IDE drives over 127 GB.

Reference:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/303013

 

[clidey]

I have windows Xp professional 2001 Service Pack 2 so I don;t think thats the problem.

 

[wahnula]

Is that a metric hard drive....????

sorry I could not resist.

 

[clidey]

I dont know what you mean but at first it had 230 GB (250GB converted to decimal thingy) And then I installed English windows Xp, got rid of japanese one, and voila! 127GB.

 

[wahnula]

Clidey I was just kidding around...Saturday night and all...

http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/capacity/137/os/winxp.html

 

[clidey]

I DO HAVE SERVICE PACK 2!!!!!!!!!!!!

So that is not the problem.

 

[bcastner]

See:
Testdisk:

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;315688

http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...efault.aspx?scid=kb;en-gb;316505&ln=en-gb

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