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    need help..getting frustrated

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by *Daystar*, Feb 22, 2008.

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    okay i did a reinstall of vista using my hp recovery disk . i have a compaq presario F572us lappy. anyways i got that all done and now all it shows for the C: drive is like 20. something GB HD and i have 11.5 of that taken up..what in the heck went wrong? how do i fix this and get it back to my original 120GB HD!!
     
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    You should have been able to partition your hard drive during the reinstall. Did you select 20GB for drive C:\ but forget to allocate the rest of the space to D:\?

    Anyways, you can try using gparted to allocate the unused space to drive D:\ or to extend drive C:\.
     
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    it didn't give me a option to do that
     
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    Try using gparted then.
     
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    also..does anyone know of which services in the task manager i can quit with this compaq presario?
     
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    www.blackviper.com has many services guides that explain what each one does and gives "safe" lists of which ones to disable.
     
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    arjunned, Feb 22, 2008
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    haha.. crash we posted at the same time.. :p
     
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    haha indeed :D

    And yes, the NBR Vista tweaks guide is great. If you haven't checked it out yet, I recommend you do so now. :)
     
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    It sounds like you may have not let the restore finish. I had this same exact problem with my HP. The second time I restore, I never touched the computer. It took for ever, but it cleared up the 20GB issue.
     
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    system restore? i just did a clean install..so wouldn't it not give me any restore points to before i did this?

    also i am using my killdisk program to format those 3 partitions it created. one was the Primary Uknown(the one mentioned in the first post)in the partition information on killdisk it says Active:YES Primary: YES
    and then i have another one that says Unallocated that ended up having like 7 gigs in it and that one says Active: NO Primary:YES and then i have another Primary Unknown the one with the 87.78 gigs..(the ones i lost) and it says Active:NO Is Primary:YES...how do i get these to be active again? or is this something i won't have to worry about
     
    *Daystar*, Feb 22, 2008
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