Hard Drive Help

neko1neko1 Join Date: 2004-02-28 Member: 26950Members
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Ok, I have a basically brand new 120 gigabyte hard drive that I got last summer, and it's work perfectly fine. About 4 months ago I formatted it and my cousin (who built my computer for me) said I should partition half of it off for games and music and such, so when I formatted it, it gave me the option of doing that, so I partitioned half off. But when it showed up after formatting it only 1 partition showed up, which is 56.1 gigs out of 120 total. I was going to format again but I kind of forgot and just wanted to use my computer, and now it's coming back to bite me in the **** as I want to format again to have all 120 gigs.

So I'll cut to the question, is there any way of finding this rogue partition so I can have my other half of a hard drive space back without formatting? Or am I screwed?
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  • CForresterCForrester P0rk(h0p Join Date: 2002-10-05 Member: 1439Members, Constellation
    If you have/buy Partition Magic, I believe that you can merge partitions, or delete the partition and extend you existing one. To be honest, I'd recommend doing a full format and sectioning off a 5 GB section for Windows and the rest of the space for all of your apps.

    The problem is, I believe, that you never formatted the second partition that you made. So you can either format that and get the space back (Control Panel, Administrative Tools. Open Computer Management and go to Disk Management. It shoiuld show an unformatted partition. Format that.

    Otherwise, check out Partition Magic.
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  • SandstormSandstorm Join Date: 2003-09-25 Member: 21205Members
    You can delete both partitions and create a larger one, to avoid the need to purchase Partition Magic. Unformatted partitions, or partitions with formats not recognized by Windows (ie. Linux), will not show up under My Computer with drive letters, if that's what is causing it to be "rogue."
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  • neko1neko1 Join Date: 2004-02-28 Member: 26950Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-CForrester+Mar 25 2005, 11:51 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (CForrester @ Mar 25 2005, 11:51 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> If you have/buy Partition Magic, I believe that you can merge partitions, or delete the partition and extend you existing one. To be honest, I'd recommend doing a full format and sectioning off a 5 GB section for Windows and the rest of the space for all of your apps.

    The problem is, I believe, that you never formatted the second partition that you made. So you can either format that and get the space back (Control Panel, Administrative Tools. Open Computer Management and go to Disk Management. It shoiuld show an unformatted partition. Format that.

    Otherwise, check out Partition Magic. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Thanks, that worked!
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