Re: [Thinkpad] big disk, small xp

the Computer Management/Disk Management dialog says:

Disk 0 |
Basic | IBM_PRELOAD (C:)
74.53 GB | 74.53 GB NTFS
Online | Healthy (System)

thanks again for your detailed help,

-rei

On Mar02 08:23, Anthony R. Gold wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 07:48:54 -0500, you wrote:
>
> > however, at this point there is only one partition (the whole disk),
> > and i used the XP installer disk to make it and reformat the drive
> > (the slow, half-hour way).
>
> If your 80GB disk size shows a capacity of just 40GB then you have a
> partition which is smaller than the physical drive and it must be resized.
>
> 1) Right-click on My Computer and choose Manage.
> 2) Select Disk Management
> 3) If there are more than one physical disks shown on the top half of the
> right hand panel, click to highlight C:.
> 3) Tell us what you read on the lower right hand panel, both on the left
> side under Disk0 and the right side which describes any partitions.
>
> Tony
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