HDD Help please

[AD_Capturs]

I have got a new laptop (off someone on here)

It has a WD320GB HDD in it but it is only showing 80GB of it. how can I get access to the remaining space?

 

[sep9001]

Are you running XP or Win 7 on the PC?

If XP go to control panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Disk management and see if you can extend the partition or format the remainder as an extended partition.

 

[neil_g]

as above have a look in disk management and see if the rest of the disk is greyed out.

if so fire up a command prompt:

diskpart [return]
list vol [return] (make a note of the vol # of the C: drive)
sel vol # [return] (where # is the number above)
extend [return]

the disk should now show the full amount.

 

[AD_Capturs]

im using windows 7 on it

 

[AD_Capturs]

its showing 223gb as unallocated

 

[AD_Capturs]

as above have a look in disk management and see if the rest of the disk is greyed out.

if so fire up a command prompt:

diskpart [return]
list vol [return] (make a note of the vol # of the C: drive)
sel vol # [return] (where # is the number above)
extend [return]

the disk should now show the full amount.

sorted Thanks Guys

 

[neil_g]

its showing 223gb as unallocated

sounds right, do the disk part thing as above.

you might need to run an elevated command prompt, so if you type into the start button search box: cmd then right click on the command prompt result and run as administrator.

 

[neil_g]

sorted Thanks Guys