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Where is my new partition?

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  1. brattygirl

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    I reformatted my hard drive and decided to create a partition. When prompted, I formatted the largest partition. When I came back to check the progress, my system was finished partitioning and was attempting to install Windows XP. Since that's impossible without the security key, it froze and had to be rebooted, at which time I entered the security key and it continued with the installation.

    It's complete and everything is reinstalled, but where's my partition? I'm missing 100 gigs and don't know how to find it.:confused:
     
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    Sounds like you only created one partition and Windows XP installed onto that one. That means you should have some unallocated space on the drive which you need to create another partition and format it. To do that you need to use Disk Management: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309000
     
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    How large is the drive and what version of XP did you use?
     
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    Thanks! I'll check it out.
     
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    Pro
     
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    Do you have SP2 installed? If not, the entire hard drive may not get recognized.
     
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    Yeah, you do need at least SP1 installed to support drives over 127GB. You can get the service packs and the updates from the Windows Update site. How big of a drive does Disk Management see?
     
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