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Missing 49GB Hard Drive Space please help!

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by fcui21

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Ok I recently installed a new Motherboard and PSU in my Emachines W2888 that was previously dead (would not power up). I successfully reinstalled WinXP and everything was fine until a few days ago when the computer started acting up like it was on Win98. It became very stagnant, very slow. I checked the hard drive space and noticed that out of 80GB the system was only reading 31GB (rounded up). So the million dollar question is, where is the other 49GB? It says total used space 15GB, total free 16GB, total capacity 31GB.

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by 93961

Windows XP doesnot support creating partition more than 32 GB whil installation.
Hence the balance of your hardidks is not alloted. You can create more partitions of the balance space in your hard disk using Disk Manager.

by educationsites

Hi

XP automatically created the partition for 31 GB out of the 80 GB. But the rest of the capacity would be still available as Raw partition. You can allocate or create partition for the remaining capacity by formatting that partition.

To access Disk Management, to do the Formatting, Right Click My Computer - Manage - Disk Management.

Regards
Imtiyaz

by fcui21

Ok but question. So when I create another partition, it will allocate more space to the current capacity? So at the moment I have roughly 31 GB, and if I do another partition I?m assuming it will add another 31GB which would give me a total of about 62GB? If this is the case, then I would have to create a partition a third time to get the full 80? Thanks guys, I will give this a try just let me know how many times I have to do this.

by 93961

When you create a partition additional Drive will be created of all the remaining unallocated Hard Disk Space. Hope you have installed Service Pack 2 of Windows XP.

by dangolrajesh

I think your file system is Fat32. so try using ntfs file system.i think it will allow you to make partation more than 32gb.it will allow.
i guess it will work.

by koti1653

Hai ...........!
sir, I think in u r hard disk virus is there plz scan virus using virus software then also u r geting means go to the disk management there one option will be there disk cleanup click there u will get it other wise format the disk again reinstall the os

OK bye

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