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Drive space
      #395644 - Thu May 29 2008 09:31 PM
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I have just built a new computer with a 500 g/b hard drive and 1 g/b of ram I loaded xp pro and it has somehow partitioned the drive so it's only showing 131 g/b in my computer how do I get it to to load the full 500 g/b do I have to reformat and reload xp any advice appreciated
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Re: Drive space [Re: Tigger2]
      #395648 - Thu May 29 2008 10:25 PM
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You'll be able to see the rest once you install Service Pack 2.

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Re: Drive space [Re: RichieP]
      #395652 - Thu May 29 2008 10:52 PM
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Thanks for that I haven't connected to the internet yet but I will install SP2 as soon as I do

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Re: Drive space [Re: RichieP]
      #396445 - Thu Jun 05 2008 07:11 PM
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I have now got an internet conection and downloaded SP2 but it still only shows 131 G/B in my computer any other ideas greatfully recieved

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Re: Drive space [Re: Tigger2]
      #396453 - Thu Jun 05 2008 07:32 PM
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Sometimes right-clicking My Computer > Manage > Disk Management, then right-clicking the ’unallocated space’ triggers the missing space.

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Re: Drive space [Re: BurrWalnut]
      #396457 - Thu Jun 05 2008 07:49 PM
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Thanks I will give that a go

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