Two seperate issues,

[Sukh]

Ok so theres two seperate issues I can't get my head around:

1) When I installed XP, I made a 20gb partition to install on, but I forgot to make the rest of the space into a partition, so that disk (500gb) is only showing up as 20, is there anyway I can create the rest of the space with a (freeware) utility?

2) My other disk, full of my lifes music collection (Storage), was plugged in when installing XP (foolish I know), and now it says the disk isn't formated, and I'm sure at no point I formated it in the XP installation, and I need to know how to get my data from it but I'm really worried i've lost all my music which took years to build up.

 

[rpstewart]

1) Why use freeware when windows will do it for you. Right click on my computer & pick manage, select disk management in the new window. You should be presented with a graphical view of your drives, the one whch has XP on it should have a huge chunk of unallocated space, right click in there and create and format a new partition.

2a) While you're in Disk Management right click on the grey bit of the stripe for the second disk and see if there's an option to import a foreign dynamic disk. If there is click on it and all should be well.

2b) Worried about losing stuff? That's what backups are for.

 

[Sukh]

Thankyou very much, that solved both issues