"Lee" <Lee@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote

>I added a second (used) 40 GB hard drive to my Dell Dimension L500r pc. It
> runs on Windows XP professional. In the process, somehow the original 40
> GB
> hard drive shrunk to 3 GB. The added drive also showed only 3 GB, but I
> was
> able to initialize, partition and format it to show 37 GB. How can I
> restore the lost drive space without losing my operating system?

What shows in disk management?

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Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]