I am a school teacher and this is my personal computer that I took to work.
The IT people have been very helpful, but cannot spend time on my computer
since it doesn't belong to the corporation.
--
Lee


"Rock" wrote:

> "Lee" <Lee@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
>
> > Thank you for your help. I had to wait until Monday to look at the disk
> > management since the troublesome computer is at work. Here is what is
> > says:
> > volume layout type file system status capacity free
> > space fault tol.
> > C partition basic NTFS healthy System 4.01 GB 501 MB
> > no
> > E partition basic NTFS healthy 37.27 GB
> > 37.08
> > GB no
> > Lee
> >
> >
> > "Rock" wrote:
> >
> >> "Lee" <Lee@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
>
> >> > The c"/ drive says there is 3 GB.
> >> > --
> >> > Lee
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > "Rock" wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> "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?
>
> >> You mean in disk management it only shows a drive that is 3GB. It
> >> doesn't
> >> show other space?
>
> And it doesn't show any unallocated space? That is strange. Is the drive
> detected properly in the BIOS? Download a drive diagnostic utility from the
> drive manufacturer's web site. That will create a bootable floppy or CD.
> Boot from it and run the diagnostics.
>
> What shows if you install it as a slave drive in another XP or Win2k
> computer?
>
> This is a work computer? Don't you have an IT person to handle this?
>
> --
> Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]
>
>