I want to use my Vista CD as skeet.

April 22, 2007 9:36 PM

I (apparently) messed up my partition, and now Windows thinks my hard drive is half the size it actually is. Help.

Long story short, I had Vista on my wife's desktop, created a second partition by shrinking the primary partition in Vista, with plans on dual booting into Vista and XP Home. Needless to say, everything went to hell quickly.

I now have XP up and running nicely with no more Vista. However, XP thinks my hard drive is 127 GB when it should be much closer to 250 GB.

I am afraid there is a bunch of unpartitioned space somewhere, but I don't know how to get to it. XP's disk management does not see the space. What can I do, short of buying Partition Magic (assuming that would help)?

Thanks, as always for your help

posted by 4ster to computers & internet (5 comments total)

Download the Gparted liveCD It'll boot up and let you manage your partitions.
posted by chrisamiller at 9:48 PM on April 22, 2007

Did you install the service pack? Sure it's not more like 137GB? It sounds like you don't have LBA-48 enabled. The solution is to install SP1 (or SP2 really, now.)
posted by Rhomboid at 9:56 PM on April 22, 2007

MS KB article
posted by Rhomboid at 9:58 PM on April 22, 2007

Rhomboid, I installed SP2, and nothing changed.
posted by 4ster at 10:00 PM on April 22, 2007

GPartedLiveCD fixed it. There was ~100 gb of unalocated space. Now all is good. Thanks so much, guys.
posted by 4ster at 10:27 PM on April 22, 2007