ASUS A8JP with 55GB instead of 120. What's Wrong? - Pls Help

I just got my brand new ASUS A8JP. After the initial excitement I came across the following: the hard disk appears to be 55 GB instead of the standard 120 GB.

Anyone ever come across this before? Can it be, or am I missing something???

Thanks for your help. Kilgore

 

There are other partitions, including a hidden recovery partition.

 

if you have a Windows XP CD (bootable), or partition magic, see if you have some unused partition space. You can just pop the ol' CD in, let it start, press enter and f8 (to go into the dialog where you'd normally install windows) and then it'll give you the partition information. If it is unpartitioned space it won't show up as a drive in windows explorer.

 

you have 2 partitions there. both shgow up as hard drives when you double click on my computer

 

The CIA took your other partition to keep it from the aliens.
This is because of the ongoing sasquatch vs elvis war.

 

Thanks guys

 

Just format it using your Windows CD. That should free up the 65GB of recovery partition.

 

You don't even need a bootable CD.

XP has a built in System tool that allows you to see the entire HDD..

Maybe just go to help and type in Partition Drive and you should find it.

 

start > control panel > performance and maintenance > administrative tools > computer management

It should be under local disk drives and should list out all partitions where you can format it and view how much space you have.

 

It's easier than that.

Left click on Start, and right click on "My Computer." Select "Manage."

A screen titled "Computer Management" should pop up. Under "Storage," select "Disk Management." On the right hand side of the screen, all the partitions of your drive should come up.

 

And should you see an odd 65GB of unallocated space, that's where the rest of your harddrive is =)

 

that only works if that space is partitioned.

I find it very odd that your new computer had that much space that was left unpartitioned. It would make more sense that 55 GB was the main i.e. Windows partition while the remainder was a partition strictly used for space (no OS, non-bootable; just storage). but your computer management won't see that space if it has no partition (i.e. NTFS, FAT32 etc.) But the only way that is possible is if the person setting up the computer did something similar to the effect of:
1) zeroing the hard drive (i.e. no partitions, all 0s written) (or else leaving a fresh hard drive as is)
2) partitioning 55 GB, and installing Windows XP on that partition, which is ok
3) doing nothing else (not OK)

Now, if the next step were to follow up and partition the rest of the space as NTFS, even without formatting/installing windows xp, then you could see it in computer management. don't believe me? well all of our hard drives have ~8 MB data that is unallocated. This is separate from ANY other partitions, but it doesn't show up in computer management because it's unpartitioned. Which is why if it is supposed to be a 120 GB HDD and >half is unpartitioned, it'll seem like it's only 55.

 

There are three partitions: Recovery, C:, D:

If you add them up, they total 111.79 GB. That's normal.

For more information, check out The Coding Forums.

Or Wikipedia.

 

Issue resolved. I am now partitioning that 55 GB of unallocated space to throw all my personal stuff in
Thanks guys. Kilgore