Why is my hard drive smaller after re-partioning?

I have an HP Pavillion 1120n with a 200gb hard drive. I deleted the c:\ partition and the d:\partition (which is just the HP recovery drive) and repartitioned the c:\drive. Now my c:\ drive's capacity is listed at 127gb instead of 200.

Should I redo the formating?

Thanks!

 

This is likely your problem:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013

 

this little 'stand alone' tool may help,

http://www.48bitlba.com/enablebiglbatool.htm

i use w2k and for some reason i always have to enable biglba after a re-format/re-install

 

I ran the tool that hawklord suggeted and got and it passed saying:

"Windows XP Service Pack 2 is installed. It is not necessary to set EnableBigLba in the Windows registry for this version of Windows. There is nothing you need to do."


da chicken: Should I still run through the link you gave to me? I should mention that I checked my atapi.sys version and it is 5.1.2600.2180.

Thanks!

 

I should mention that I checked my atapi.sys version and it is 5.1.2600.2180.

 

That's interesting. What does disk management (Run "diskmgmt.msc") display for the disk? Is there unpartitioned disk space?

 

Yes, it does say unpartitioned space. It says: Disk 0 Basic 186.31 GB Online. Then to the right: C:\127.99BG NTSF Healthy (system). Then 58.32GB Unallocated. There's my missing space. How do I get that back? I've downloaded all the Windows SP's (Just did SP3). Do I need to reformat again?

Also, if this makes a difference. I printed a report (Belarc Advisor) BEFORE did all this and the OS I had was Windows XP Media Center Edition Service pack 2 (build 2600). Well I couldn't find that CD so I installed Windows XP home Edition instead.

Don't know if this is helpful. Thanks alot for helping me, I love this website.

 

I would use this:
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/

Boot to the LiveCD, extend the partition, and then grow the filesystem.

 

Could you give help me get gparted started. I went to the link you said and downloaded the bz2 file. I unzipped it but don't know how to run the program.

Then I found other instructions online at http://www.wikihow.com/Use-Gparted. I burned the ISO file to a cd and cannot get my computer to boot to it. I check the BIOS settings and even changed it so it should've booted to the CD first. Should I have unzipped that file first then burnt all the files to the CD or is it supposed to be booting to a cd with an ISO file on it?

I think once I figure out how to get the program started I should be okay.

 

How did you burn the .iso to the CD? Did you burn it as a disk image, or did you just burn the .iso file as though it were any other sort of data file?

Ubuntu has a nice writeup for burning their .iso file from Windows. The procedure is the same for this file, too:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BurningIsoHowto

 

hi,

the reason its not being 'seen' is that its not been allocated a letter

so, another option would be

right click 'my computer'
choose 'manage' from the list
in the window that opens, click 'disk management' (on the left)

in the right hand pane, you will see the unalocated space
right click on the space and choose 'change drive letter and path'

windows will automatically assign a drive letter
ok everything

you should now be the proud owner of a 58gb partition (it may need formating) which you can access via my computer,

 

Yeah, but his goal is to have a single drive letter with the entire disk space taken. Under XP Pro he could convert the disk to Dynamic and then span the volumes, but since this is XP Home he can't. His only option is to repartition or to use tools that are able to grow an NTFS partition directly (such as gparted).

 

If you have a floppy drive, then download BiNg from terabyte unlimited (free) and resize the primary / active partition ie C: to include the unallocated space. BiNG will boot from the floppy disk.

Prequisites for running a HDD >127GiB is XP SP1 and a bios that can address 48 bit LBA which it appears that you have.

Good Luck

 

Hi da chicken, I think we're almost there.

I burned the iso image to a cd and rebooted. Worked this time, I had to select the gparted with force vesa driver.

Started gparted and there is an exclamation mark on the c:\ drive. When I click on that it tells me the drive has at least 1 bad sector and to run chkdsk /f /r. So when I do extend the partition and try to apply it, it won't work.

I ran chkdsk /f /r and it said the drive is clean. I'm going to run it again. In the mean time is there anything else.

Thanks....

 

No, the only time I've ever had a problem with disk integrity running chkdsk corrected it.

You can try a different disk partitioning utility, or you can try reformatting the disk. If you do end up reformatting, don't do a quick format.

 

I reformatted, tried chkdsk again and can't get rid of the bad sectors.

Bought a new hd this morning, they're so cheap now I wish I'd known this was going to be the outcome 4 days ago. I would have saved myself alot of frustration

Thanks for your help !!!