Hard Drive Space missing when reinstalling XP

July 7, 2008

Ok I recently brought a Dell computer that comes with a 250 GB hard drive and

is loaded with Windows Vista. I dislike vista, so I decided to delete it and

install XP Pro.

This is what I did. I put the Win XP Pro CD into my computer and booted from

the CD. In the Win XP pro installation, I deleted the partition that

contained the Vista OS (There was 2, one that has vista and the other is

recovery info, which is about 10 GB). When I told it to delete the vista

partition, the XP installation did stated it was about 240 GB, but after I

deleted the Vista partition and create a new partition for my XP OS, it

stated the max is 117 GB. So what happened to the 220 GB that is missing on

my hard drive? Why is Win XP not detecting it? How do I recover it so Win XP

would detect it?

I have tried Partition Magic and it did not work.

July 7, 2008

RE: Hard Drive Space missing when reinstalling XP

I forgot to mention, that it is formatted in NTFS and I am running it on

Service Patch 3 of Win XP

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