Noob question. Fitted new Hard drive..

Hedge · 8 Oct 2008 at 14:51

I bought a 320gb hd off members market, So ive put it in my machine and im running Windows XP setup.

It comes up with 131gb unpartitioned space.

What do i do to get the rest lol

Hedge · 8 Oct 2008 at 14:57

I pressed D but it doesnt say there are any partitions, it just says 131xxxxmb of unpartitioned space?

Hedge · 8 Oct 2008 at 15:12

Hedge · 8 Oct 2008 at 15:42

Orange Peel said:
You need to delete the primary partition. The 131GB isnt partitioned so removing the space that is will give you the whole disk to re-partition.

i cant delete it though. It gives 3 options. Create a partition, install on this partitioned space, or delete partition.

i press d to delete.. but there isnt a partition to delete as all it says is unpartitioned space

Hedge · 8 Oct 2008 at 15:43

Ok so i just install it. Install SP when its all up and running. Then repartition everything after that stage?

ideally i want 50gb for windows/office aps. then split the rest between games and media in 2 more partitions

Hedge · 8 Oct 2008 at 16:08

nah its the same system. but im doing a fresh install of windows. my install is all bollocksed up so i just want a fresh start again

the hard drive is a western digital caviar aaks3200 thingie

Hedge · 8 Oct 2008 at 22:24

Well i had Xp Pro on disk. and SP2 on disk, but i had to install XP, then install SP2 , i didnt know any other way of doing it.

So now i have that 130gb partition, and ive just split the other 170gb up. Shame really, i only want 30-50gb on my windows partition. the rest woulda been for media and games..

gotta admit though, ive been late getting a fast hard drive, and the performance is immense.

Windows installed in about 6 minutes lol