HELP half of my hard drive has gone missing after a fresh install!

harris1986

harris1986

harris1986

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Guys i just got my new Sata2 Seagate 7200.10 250gb hard drive installed windows and checked my hard disk space and i now only have 121gb of freespace after sp2 install but it says that i have only used 6gb? so where is my other 120gb?

HELP :(
 
is says disk 0 basic 232.88gb online, then to the right it says (c:) 127.99gb NTFS Healthy (system), and far right it says 104.89gb unallocated.

so i have no idea what this means lol? that help?
 
messiah buddy i have already installed sp2, to no avail! chris yeah i got to the stage where i can format a new partition i decided not to create a partition
 
ahh kk yeah i had to slipstream a windows xp install as i needed the sata drivers for my hard drive as i don't have a floppy. I'l try slipstreaming sp2 onto xp tonite and try a reformatt see if that works failing that it's 2 partitions for me and will just have to try and use partition magic as you said :) thanks for the help phil. I'l post back and let you know how i get on :D
 
ok i'm really having some problems now. Every so often i can finally get windows to install without it blue screening and displaying lots of error's! However when windows does install properly i also managed to install sp2 aswell then tried installing my motherboard drivers and half way through my comp just restarted and i got a error something to do with system32 drivers nvsata.
 
i can't get to the event viewer, just reinstalled windows and every time i try to install sp2 my comp just reboots and i get the error UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME and i can't get into windows! this is really annoying me now i'm seriously considering selling my comp just fed up with all the headaches and hassle
 
i got sp2 directly from microsoft, yes it genuinely happens when i try to install sp2 but sometimes i can't even fully install windows it gets to about 2 mins to go then blue screens displaying different messages each time! and occasionally i have installed sp2 fine then try to install mobo drivers and then it restarts. i have tried to do a slipstream using nlite of sp2 and windows xp pro but it goes over 700mb and at the minute the largest cd i have is a 700mb disk! i'l take a look at that link
 
kk mite give it a try :) for reference windows and sp2 have just installed fine and after the sp2 install got back to desktop and i got a message saying windows has just recovered from a serious error :S
 
cpu is at stock and ram is running 2.5-3-3-8, ok now i have sp2 installed fine and mobo drivers and gfx card drivers all running fine i'm just creating a partion for the other portion of my hard drive as my 250gb seagate was recognised as 127gb free after windows install, would you recommend using partion magic to join the two partion's?
 
kk will keep the 2 partitions then, i installed firefox and for some reason like it did with my old hard drive it just wouldn't open, as soon as i click on it i get "this programme has encountered a error and needs to close" so looks like i'm running i.e. :confused:
otherwise it's running pretty smoothly *touches wood*
 
Looks like i'm going to have to rma my ram! i ran memtest last nite and it started giving me error's after 2% lol it's well and truly borked and comp was running completely stock settings
 
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