your suggestions are all good ones, and I haven't responded because I haven't
had time to run a diagnoistic on the computer, or trying putting the primary
drive on another computer as a slave. Thank you for all your suggestions. I
hope to address these next week sometime.
--
Lee


"Rock" wrote:

> "Lee" <Lee@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
>
> >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?
>
>
> Ok, but you didn't answer any of the questions. We can't see your computer,
> only you can. As an alternative you could take it to a competent computer
> repair shop, not the local Geek squad.
>
> --
> Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]
>
>