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Neil Phillips

I had a friend do a partition on my hard-drive 2 years
ago, C was 4GB & D was 16GB. That was with win98. Had a
severe problem & had to re-format my hard-drive. While
doing this I 'deleted' the partition, then installed
winXP. Now I only have 4GB, seems like the other 16GB are
lost forever. Can this be recovered? Any suggestions? I
know I must of done something wrong...but what? and can
it be repaired / recovered? I live in Canada's Arctic so
have no access to local help, without being extremely
expensive (ie. shipping computer out via airline to the
South).
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Neil Phillips said:
I had a friend do a partition on my hard-drive 2 years
ago, C was 4GB & D was 16GB. That was with win98. Had a
severe problem & had to re-format my hard-drive. While
doing this I 'deleted' the partition, then installed
winXP. Now I only have 4GB, seems like the other 16GB are
lost forever. Can this be recovered? Any suggestions? I
know I must of done something wrong...but what? and can
it be repaired / recovered? I live in Canada's Arctic so
have no access to local help, without being extremely
expensive (ie. shipping computer out via airline to the
South).
(e-mail address removed) (work)
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Should still be there, go to disk management and there should be some
unpartitioned space. If it's there choose create partition then format it in
ntfs.
BTW get to disk management by right clicking My Computer then choosing
manage then disk management.
Hope this helps..
 
Hi,

If you have valuable data files on the 16G paritition,
don't use the disk management and format it, you will
lose all the data. Try use 3rd party software like
parition magic 8.0. You can buy it on-line from
powerquest.com. Of course, if you have already made
backup of your data, you can use disk management to
format it.

Peter
 
If you already deleted the partition it is gone. As a suggestion,
if you haven't got very far in rebuilding I would consider reinstalling
and increasing the size of your primary partition. 4 gigs is small for
XP with very many programs. If you are going to use FAT32 as I remember
there is a cluster size break at 8 gigs. If you use NTFS it doesn't
matter.
 
Mike Powers escreveu o seguinte:


If you already deleted the partition it is gone. As a suggestion,
if you haven't got very far in rebuilding I would consider reinstalling
and increasing the size of your primary partition. 4 gigs is small for
XP with very many programs. If you are going to use FAT32 as I remember
there is a cluster size break at 8 gigs. If you use NTFS it doesn't
matter.
Click to expand...
In case you have data in the 16 G space that you can?t loose, try
Ontrack Easy Recovery to check if these data is recoverable (the
registered program recover all data who isn't corrupted). If you had no
data to recover, just re-partition the space and format it.
 
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