HHD Partition Problem

galadial · 25 Nov 2006 at 13:33

I've partitioned my 320 GB Seagate HDD into a 100Gb and 220Gb partition, but windows XP is only recognising the 100Gb partition. How do i get the rest of the HDD back?

cheers G

mctiny · 25 Nov 2006 at 13:55

got to Start>Control Panel>Admin tools>Computer Management>Disk Management.

The partition should appear there, all you'll have to do then is Right click on the partiti0on and create and format a new partition on it.

Naffa · 25 Nov 2006 at 15:24

I'm not the OP, but thank you very much for the advice. Had the same problem and am currently reformatting my hidden partition.

Thanks.

mctiny · 25 Nov 2006 at 15:31

naffa said:
I'm not the OP, but thank you very much for the advice. Had the same problem and am currently reformatting my hidden partition.

Thanks.

no worries, it's a common problem that get over looked and forgoten when installing new drives and windows.

galadial · 27 Nov 2006 at 13:15

Thanks for the help. My solution in the end was to download a partition managing utility and use that to locate and restore the lost partition. Hopefully that'll help anyone else inthe same boat.