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    HDD Question

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Bano, May 21, 2008.

  1. Bano

    Bano Notebook Consultant

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    Well, I have a 100GB HDD that comes stock with my laptop. I recently installed Vista Ultimate on my laptop and everything is working great. Only thing that is werid is that when I go to My Computer, it says that my HDD is only 24GB :confused: ... How do I fix this? any help is more than welcome. Thanx in advance
     
    Bano, May 21, 2008
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  2. K-TRON

    K-TRON Hi, I'm Jimmy Diesel ^_^

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    Are you sure that the drive is only 24gb, and not 24gb free.
    Right click the harddrive icon, and you will see how much data your harddrive can hold, and how mch free space there is.
    Hopefully you have 24gb remaining, and not 24gb overall.

    K-TRON
     
    K-TRON, May 21, 2008
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  3. jisaac

    jisaac Notebook Deity

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    go to control panel --> administrative tools -> computer management -> storage -> disk management
    locate your hard drive and make sure that there is no unpartitioned space and that if there are partitions that they all have allocated letters.
    this is doubtful since he's just installed the os :)
     
    jisaac, May 21, 2008
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  4. Bano

    Bano Notebook Consultant

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    Alright man, I went to the management screen and it's showing that 69.14 GB are Unallocated :confused: . What would I have to do now? Thanx for the reply, quick and easy fix I hope :D ...

     
    Bano, May 22, 2008
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  5. K-TRON

    K-TRON Hi, I'm Jimmy Diesel ^_^

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    If you do what jisaac mentioned, you should see the allocated space on the drive.
    Simply create a partition which fills all of that space, and then you will be able to recover your harddrive capacity.
    It is very strange that during the installation process Vista did not use the whole drive.
    Did you select to format the drive with Vista, or set up vista in free space?
    Setting up vista in the free space on the drive is the only way which I can see this happening.

    You should be able to make a partition with disk management, to make use of that temporarily lost space.

    K-TRON
     
    K-TRON, May 22, 2008
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  6. Bano

    Bano Notebook Consultant

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    I honestly don't know what happened man lol... I just upgraded to Vista and it was configured that wy :confused: . So now I'll have to go back and make folders inside that partition for all my stuff? thanx...

     
    Bano, May 22, 2008
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    miner Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Yes or you can delete that partition(the one you just created) and merge it back with the smaller one(C: ) to get a single partiton ~90GB if thats what you prefer.
     
    miner, May 22, 2008
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