Recover 40 Gig lost from 120 Gig Drive?

OK - I admit it - I fouled up on this one .

I inadvertently ran Partition Magic 7 (designed for drives up to 80 Gig) on my friend's new PC with 120 Gig drive. He now has ~80 Gig of space plus ~40 Gig unallocated and is not impressed! As I recall - this was a while ago - PM would not allow me to convert the unallocated space into a partition, although PM support said that it should.

I have to try and solve this problem at distance - on the phone and my friend is no computer guru.

If I can't get PM 7 to do the job the question is

A) is 'DISKPART' to be found in XP Home, and if so

B) will the 'extend' command do the trick?

as mentioned in the link in this thread:

http://www.windowsbbs.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=16121

Or is there any other way?

TIA

 

After following all the links, yes, it "should" work like a charm.



I have finally managed to make Windows recognise the full 180 GB of my
new hard drive.

I went to Control Panel --> Performance and Maintenance -->
Administrative Tools --> Computer Management --> Storage --> DiskManagement

There I saw that my "Disk 0" was 40 GB large and my "Disk 1" had 128
GB plus another 52 UNALLOCATED GB. I right clicked and selected Help,
where I found the following information:

1. I opened command prompt and typed "diskpart" (without the quotes).
2. At the DISKPART prompt, I typed:
list volume
3. The following information appeared:
Volume 0 D
Volume 1 E
Volume 2 C
Volume 3 F
(where F was the "problematic" hard drive)
4. I therefore typed:
select volume 3
(obviously "3" should be replaced by the number of the volume that
"is missing" GBs in your case)
5. I then typed:
extend
(This command extends this drive to the whole available space. I
could have typed "extend 10000" to extend this partition to an extra
10 GB. You can refer to the Windows Help file for more details).

Although I am not 100% sure, I believe that for the above to apply you
should have installed SP1, but it's not necessary to have changed the
Registry settings as I wrote in my first post.

 

Thanks Steve - that gives me a degree of confidence!

I now have a demo version of Partition Magic 8 - so two possible approaches.

Edit - the demo only goes through the motions - doesn't make any changes

I'll keep you posted.

 

Problem solved - very simply

In Disk Management - ~40 Gb Free Space shown - right click on it - make partition - Bingo - job done.

Thanks

 

Thanks for posting back