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Best way to make use of 500g HD

Discussion in 'Windows XP' started by catania62, 2010/01/12.

  1. 2010/01/12
    catania62

    catania62 Inactive Thread Starter

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    I have a new WD500g HD with xp pro recently installed. When partitioning my bios would not allow the full use. Disc management in xp has it as c drive capacity 127.99gb ntfs, and the other 337.77 gb is unallocated. I created an extended partition and the 337.77 now reads free space.
    My question is am I getting the full use of this drive now because under disk 0it has Basic and 465.76gb but the volume info is still capacity 127.99gb or is there another step? TIA
     
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    PeteC

    PeteC SuperGeek Staff

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    There is one more step to take ....

    Right click in the Free Space > New Logical Drive and follow the Wizard through. Set the partition size to the maximum which is set as default or enter a value of your choice if you wish to create more than one partition.

    Before you do the above I suggest you Right click on your optical drive(s) and change the drive letter so that the drives you create on the hard drive are contiguous - C:\, D:\, etc.

    If you do not change the drive letter(s) of your optical drives they will show in Windows Explorer after your C:\ drive and before your 'new' drives. FWIW I always assign the diive letters X & Y to my two optical drives.

    BTW - it will be a limitation in the BIOS which prevents it from seeing the full 500GB.
     
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    catania62

    catania62 Inactive Thread Starter

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    Thank you for the quick response. It is completing as I write this.
     
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    TonyT

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    answer #2: mail it to me! :)
     
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