Missing A Partition?

[Soma Cruz]

I just formatted my HDD, and split it into 2. I was going to use 30gig for Windows XP and it's stuff, and another 10gig for linux. I recently partitioned at school in class as part of a lesson, and all I had to do was creat a partition and then format it. Later, I was able to go into My Computer and format D (which should have been the leftover HD space). However, this is not the case with my XP home. It says my C drive has 30gig, but there is no other drives. So, does that mean I should pop in my XP cd and format another partition, or what? The only way I know of doing it is through the XP install disk. Any help would be greatly appreciated, I do hate trial & error.

[peat moss]

Dual boot I think ? hope this link helps http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...&NoWebContent=1

[Soma Cruz]

Nope, that's not it. Guess I wasn't very coherant with my problem.
I can't find out how to take the leftover space from my HD (10gig left) and make that into an explorable drive like the C drive. I'm gonna try popping in the CD, see if that will solve the problem. Doubt it, though.

[4th gen]

Go to control panel>administrative tools>computer management>disk management.
Does the 10GB partition show up there?

[Evil Gemini]

Sounds like you have left it unpartitioned.

Boot with the xp disk and check it because if you leave it unpartitioned, windows wont be able to see it.

[DWk]

Originally posted by Evil Gemini@7 February 2004 - 01:05
Sounds like you have left it unpartitioned.

Negative, he just left it unformatted. As 4th gen said, do that and you'll fix it B)

[Soma Cruz]

Evil Gemini was right. I booted up with the CD, and it was still unpartitioned. Shows up fine, now.

[Evil Gemini]

Originally posted by Soma Cruz@7 February 2004 - 20:07
Evil Gemini was right. I booted up with the CD, and it was still unpartitioned. Shows up fine, now.