hard drive gigs lost?

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James Coyle

I upgraded from ME to XP on a sony Viao notebook.

I had partitioned hard drives: C with 6 gigs and D with 8
gigs.

When I converted from FAT32 to NTFS file system I lost the
D: drive partition and the 8 gigs.

I deleted the partition during the set up thinking the
remaining 8 gigs would be combined to the C: disk. Not the
case any suggestions?
 
Hi,

The convert command will only affect the existing partition it is run on.
Nothing in the Windows drive tools can resize a drive non-destructively. By
deleting D, you have created free space on the drive. Simply create a new
partition from it. Start/run diskmgmt.msc and use this tool to create the
partition, then format it.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
 
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