my computer only reads my 120 gb drive as 32gb

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walleye

I installed a 120 gb slave drive and went to unpartition it thru manage

But it only took away the 32gb partiton and did not join it with the
other partitions?
So you see my xp pro still only see it as 32gb
Even after I reformatted it
Can anyone help me get rid of the other 2 partitions so I may use the
whole 120 gb
:confused:
 
Hi, you can use professional partition software such as Acronis Partition
Expert/Partition Magic to reveal the whole drive and re-allocate one or
more.
 
I assume it was a used drive?
Were all the partitions visible in Disk Management? if so you have to delete
them all, then partition the whole disk.
 
This sounds like the drive was formatted as a FAT 32 drive instead of NTFS.
XP will partition and format a drive as 32 GB if FAT 32 is chosen. This is
a designed limit of XP. To enable the full size of the drive as one, you
need to either copy any needed files from the partitions above the original
32 GB partition and then use a 3rd party program to remove the additional
partitions and then stretch the original partition to the full size of the
drive. The other option would be to copy all files off the drive to the C:
drive. Go into disk management. Right click on my computer and then left
click Manage, Disk management Right click on the drive, delete all the
partitions on the drive and then recreate the partition and format as NTFS.
 
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