a while ago i reformatted my 200gb drive to be my main drive. once windows was installed i realized that it only came up as a 32gb(well 31.5 lol) but at the time i just got an external hd off a friend with a lot of free space on it so i didnt bother with fixing it. i know this is a common problem when a drive is reformatted to fat32 but this is ntfs. ive found a few things to fix it but they all format the drive. does anyone know of anyways to get my space back without reformatting my drive. the extra 170gb would be nice haha. any help is great. thanks
Is this a newer computer or an older computer that pre-dates 2001? You need to check the partition sizes. Partitions are allocated sections of the hard drive. A partition must be formatted before it is usable. I'd suspect you need to delete all partitions on the drive and create one partition that takes up all the space on the drive. Another option is using logical partitions, but that's more complicated.
i got the hard drive in 05 with a computer i won from techtv and have since just upgraded stuff and now i think that and the optical drives are from the original(new case too lol). when i installed windows on the drive i chose to completely reformat the drive before installing. is their any way to fix this without formatting the drive and reinstalling windows?
