XP Proffessional install listing 1 drive

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I wiped XP Home off my hard drive and installed XP Professional. After
installing XP Professional. Hard Drive. I noticed it did not partition the
hard drive and listed my Hard drive in another location C and D are my dvd /
cd roms. What do I need to do to fix the partition. Upon install I did not
see an option to partition nor did the cd setup partition. It also only lists
135 gb of the 160 Hard drive. Do I clean wipe and reinstall?
 
Proplexed said:
I wiped XP Home off my hard drive and installed XP Professional. After
installing XP Professional. Hard Drive. I noticed it did not partition the
hard drive and listed my Hard drive in another location C and D are my
dvd /
cd roms. What do I need to do to fix the partition. Upon install I did
not
see an option to partition nor did the cd setup partition. It also only
lists
135 gb of the 160 Hard drive. Do I clean wipe and reinstall?
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Right-click on My Computer, select Manage and then under Storage click on
Disk Management. What does that show?
 
Gordon said:
Right-click on My Computer, select Manage and then under Storage click on
Disk Management. What does that show?


It list's volume I, layout partition, type basic, status healthy, capacity 149.04, .free space 137.73, % free 92% ,fault tolerance no, overhead 0%
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Then the size is OK. Its down to the way manufacturers describe the
capacity of an UNFORMATTED drive.....you have a formatted drive of 149 GB
capaciy. that sounds about right after formatting a 160 GB drive...
The install HAS partitioned your drive, but you only have one, which is
standard. You would have been given the option to re-partition at the very
beginning of the install procedure if you had selected "new install".

In that dialog box in Disk Management you can change the drive letters. You
will need to insert CDs into your DVD and CDROM drives first so that they
are seen in Disk Management.

HTH
 
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