reinstall xp

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colleen

I installed win xp on a 80 gig drive but when i look at it under explorer it
shows 7 gig when i look at it under disk management, it shows 7 gig ntfs and
66 gig unallocated.
do I have to start all over again, and reinstall win xp or is there a way to
keep the 7 gig of win xp and other programs but gain use to the rest of the
drive? If i do have to reinstall how do i get the whole drive allocated?
Thanks in advance for your help
 
I installed win xp on a 80 gig drive but when i look at it under explorerit
shows 7 gig when i look at it under disk management, it shows 7 gig ntfs and
66 gig unallocated.
do I have to start all over again, and reinstall win xp or is there a wayto
keep the 7 gig of win xp and other programs but gain use to the rest of the
drive?  If i do have to reinstall how do i get the whole drive allocated?
Thanks in advance for your help
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No need to re-install XP.

Depends on what you want to accomplish ....
1) how to get the whole drive allocated?
Assume you want the unallocated space to become another partition,
just open Disk Management and create partition on the unallocated
space.
Control Panel > Admin Tools > Computer Management > Disk
Management

2) If you want to expand the C: drive from 7G to become 66G,
just use a Partition Manager that can resize partition.
PowerQuest Partition Manager, Acronis Disk Director are
commercial.
You can google "resize partition" to get some freebies.
 
you simply need to format
the unallocated space

then expand the system
partition.

go to admin tools,
computer management.

then right click on the
spaces displayed to see
what options are available
to you for disk management.

if you have winxp home
version you will likely
need to use a partitioning
software.

the problem is that if you
can't expand that 7 gig
space or merge it with
the rest the space,

you will have a problem
because 7 gigs for the
system partition will become
quickly used up and eventually
too small especially as you
install "programs" in windows.


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Best to reinstall.
But if you want 2 partitions then
enter this value when prompted:
40GB Windows partition = 40960

This will give you about 35GB which
you can use Disk Management to create
and format a second partition.
 
colleen said:
I installed win xp on a 80 gig drive but when i look at it under explorer
it
shows 7 gig when i look at it under disk management, it shows 7 gig ntfs
and
66 gig unallocated.
do I have to start all over again, and reinstall win xp or is there a way
to
keep the 7 gig of win xp and other programs but gain use to the rest of
the
drive? If i do have to reinstall how do i get the whole drive allocated?
Thanks in advance for your help
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7 gig is much to small for the system partition. You will run into
serious space problems much sooner than later.

Unfortunately, it's probably best if you start over, deleting the partition,
and creating one partition the full size of the drive.

HTH
-pk
 
db said:
you simply need to format
the unallocated space

then expand the system
partition.
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Er...., completely wrong order. If the OP were to create and format a
partition in the unallocated space, there'd clearly be no room in which
to expand the system partition.

Stick with subjects you know, whatever those might be. It's certainly
not computers.



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colleen said:
I installed win xp on a 80 gig drive but when i look at it under explorer it
shows 7 gig when i look at it under disk management, it shows 7 gig ntfs and
66 gig unallocated.
do I have to start all over again, and reinstall win xp or is there a way to
keep the 7 gig of win xp and other programs but gain use to the rest of the
drive? If i do have to reinstall how do i get the whole drive allocated?
Thanks in advance for your help
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There's nothing you can do with native WinXP tools, short of completely
wiping the hard drive and starting afresh. You'll need to acquire a 3rd
party partition management utility to expand the system partition into
the unallocated space.

For a fully functional, free, 30-day evaluation version, BootItNG
can't be beat:

Terabyte Unlimited's BootItNG
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootitng.html


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Bruce Chambers

Help us help you:


http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/555375

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin

Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. ~Bertrand Russell

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has
killed a great many philosophers.
~ Denis Diderot
 
Bruce said:
Er...., completely wrong order. If the OP were to create and format a
partition in the unallocated space, there'd clearly be no room in which
to expand the system partition.

Stick with subjects you know, whatever those might be. It's certainly
not computers.
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VIC-20's and DBASE1, I believe it was - but I can't recall now.
 
Yup, although I seriously doubt if he knows who Steve Ciarcia is or what he
wrote about, or much less could understand it. (Much of Ciarcia published
was fairly technical at the electronics level).
 
Really? Wow. Well I remember reading some of his technical articles in
Byte Magazine, and, as an EE, I sure appreciated some of it! I think this
was back in the 1980's, as I recall. Articles on interfacing various stuff
(a mix of hardware and software) to the computers of those days. (I had a
VIC-20 and Timex Sinclair at that time)
 
Bill said:
Really? Wow. Well I remember reading some of his technical articles in
Byte Magazine, and, as an EE, I sure appreciated some of it! I think this
was back in the 1980's, as I recall. Articles on interfacing various stuff
(a mix of hardware and software) to the computers of those days. (I had a
VIC-20 and Timex Sinclair at that time)
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He's still writing with his own magazine with the same title.
 
70's and 80's

Which reminds me, I still have the very early issues of Byte.
I had several early systems including "Digital Group", TI-99/4A,
A box I built that emulated a TRS-80 which believe it or not had
dual graphics processors and 30% overclock.

The best overclocked system I hatched was about 300% increase
from it rated speed and this was in the early 1980's. Still have my
copy of Windows 1.x and the last time I ran that was on a 500Mhz P3.
 
Bill said:
Byte Magazine is now his magazine? (I don't know what happened to Byte
magazine)
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I'm sorry about the confusion. I meant that his new magazine has the
same title as his column, Circuit Cellar.
Byte unfortunately was killed off after it was bought by another company.
 
Michael said:
I'm sorry about the confusion. I meant that his new magazine has the
same title as his column, Circuit Cellar.
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Oh, ok. Got it. "Circuit Cellar" definitely rings a bell. :-)
Byte unfortunately was killed off after it was bought by another company.
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That is really sad. I guess it's yet another sign of the times....
 
colleen said:
I installed win xp on a 80 gig drive but when i look at it under explorer it
shows 7 gig when i look at it under disk management, it shows 7 gig ntfs and
66 gig unallocated.
do I have to start all over again, and reinstall win xp or is there a way to
keep the 7 gig of win xp and other programs but gain use to the rest of the
drive? If i do have to reinstall how do i get the whole drive allocated?
Thanks in advance for your help
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I would buy software to partition the 66GB you have left. I like
Partition Magic personally but, there are others available perhaps for
less money.
Good luck,
Rick
 
the instructions I provided
are accurate if the o.p. can
ascertain a method to
expand the system partition
or merge it,

like with a partitioning
program,

"you moron"!

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not completely accurate.
the o.p. doesn't have to
buy a partitioning program.

its' cheaper just to start
over to reinstall the o.s.
on all or 50% of the disk
space or

"install the o.s. to
unallocated space"

the unallocated space
will get formatted one
way or another.

as usual, you are unable
to provide all the options
possible,

are you still an mvp?


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