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As you might have guessed from the title I've encounterd a problem or two while trying to install XP on my machine. While I don't have enough time to go into too much detail tonight, I just wanted to throw out a few feelers to see if anyone know how to recover drive space (about 15GBs) lost when the XP installer deleted a partition on my drive.
I'm also having trouble with my modem and graphics card but I'm pretty sure those are driver issues.
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Well, how do you mean "recover"? Do you just want the space, or is there data there that you want to get back?
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1) open a DOS box or command prompt 2) enter "fdisk /mbr" 3) reboot 4) run fdisk again to re-index your drive
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Just the space. I had the foresight to backup my data files before doing a system change so I'm not concerned about loss of data. The thing is my HD is supposed to be 30GBs, XP insists it's only 15GBs. I can't re-insert my data unless I get that space back.
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Not to sound crazy or anything, but you haven't got a second15 gig hard drive icon appearing in "My Computer", have you?
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DOn'T use fdisk, it's not worth the potential trouble.
2k and XP Pro have partition management built right in. Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management.
Expand Storage, select Disk Management.
RTFM from there, though you shouldn't have to. Pretty straightforward...
Dunno about XP Home though...
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Cheers Charles, that did it. (I have Pro) All I need to do now is find an XP compatible driver for my modem (for those scratching their heads I've borrowed a laptop for the time being) download the XP drivers for my graphics card and spend the next three days installing all my programs. Fun!
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What graphics card is it? Because, really, who has a card that isn't nVidia, ATI or SIS nowadays, eh? EH?
Also, and again this is crazy sounding, but didn't you run that oh-so-useful "Will XP work with all my hardware" utility?
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