Desperate times, 11th hour fix but... where's my disk?

Hi,

System: Dell Inspiron E1505; Intel CoreTM Duo Proc T2050; XP Professional SP2

Edit: Here's some pictures:
http://www.virtualmediastudios.com/Doc2.htm

I’m a desperate writer and 3D animator who has a deadline and who leaves tomorrow on a 2 week cruise then 2 weeks at our mountain cabin. And, I ran out of disk space! I just got done upgrading from a 60GB drive to a 250GB drive. Rather then reinstall everything, I’m afraid I used Apricorn’s EZ Upgrade Sata Notebook Hard Drive Upgrade Kit which creates a ‘clone’ of your current disk on the new disk drive. I found out about the special Media Center partition after the fact but, the PC boots, all the things I need are working and I can live without Media Center for a month.

However, only the partition that was cloned over shows up. I expected to see the other 190GB in Computer Management under Disk Management and be able to create a partition on it but, its not there. I’ve rebooted, had the PC scan for HW changes. In the Bios the drive is listed as a 60GB drive but, as far as I can see (and I’ve looked and looked) there is no way to change this. I checked the Device Manager and the disk seems listed correctly with ‘WD’ and ‘250’. I don’t think the Media Center partition has anything to do with this… more likely I’m missing a simple step.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks!
Rusty

 

In windows, start, accessories, system tools, administrative tools

or

Control Panel, Administrative Tools.

Choose Disk Management.

See if it shows there, and try to initialize the rest of the partition.

 

As I mentioned in my post (perhaps I said it wrong)... Disk Management was the first place I looked. It shows a FAT Partition (system stuff), then the 60 GB partition that was cloned... then it ends.

see pics: http://www.virtualmediastudios.com/Doc2.htm

 

Does it show unpartitioned space?
If it does, you could use the diskpart command line utility.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/325590