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Hello, im having this issue right now. After i reformatted my computer, due to known viruses my cuzzin got it, i went to check how much space the hard drive has and it only shows 9 gig capacity. Before i reformatted i went to the desktop to check out the problem and i checked the the hard drive to see how much space it has. it says the capacity was 200 gig. soo right now im really lost....i dunt know if i did anything wrong. what i did was put in the winxp cd and boot it. select to reinstall a fresh copy of win xp over the existing ones. it deletes all the old files the were on the comp. i choose format using ntfs without quick mode. soo any help wud be appreciated. thnxx

It could be that you had two partitions
A recovery partition (usually small ~ 2Gig)
And your previous OS partition

You could have installed Windows on the Recovery Partition

Just re-install again, but this time remove all partitions first (no need to format, and no need to create the new partition)

On a non Partitioned & non Formatted drive, Windows will automatically create a single NTFS partition, then install Windows.

Ohh ok so i dunt have to delete anything just reinstall the windows into the right partition?

ohh well do you think you can gib me a step by step instructions because i reinstall it like 3 times already and i dunt want to go to the same process over and over. thnx

When you reinstall windows, (delete any partitions that already exist) and then continue on. You will have to create 1 big partition after deleting the smaller ones. It is pretty much foolproof.

and stop your COUSIN from jacking with your computer.

Ohh ok ill see and try it in the morning. ill come back if it doesnt work or anything. thnx guys.

ok, just remove the partition(s)
You will be able to read on screen when this step comes up (in Windows setup)
It's all there
And again, no need to create a new partition manually

ohh ok thnx for all your help. ill let oyu know how it goes when i go do it. thnx again. save me alot of time.

Download software called "Partition Manager". You can use it to show unmoutned HDD space ;-) and mount new hard drives, re-partition existing partitions, etc.

Kind regards,
Scott

thnx for the help =] much appreciated!

Not required though

Just follow what I said, that is all

Lol, try his idea first. If that don't work, then try mine :-D

Kind regards,
Scott

ok ok thnx guys for the help. ill try it in like 2 more hrs thats when its 7am haha =P

im still kinda confused a bit. when im in the screen where it says if i want to delete the partition it still shows that i have only 9531 mb. i tried to creating a new one but it still shows that much mb. the maximum capacity was 200 gig before i reformatted it. i tried what you guys told me but its not helping. any clue?

Sorry, don't know what else to suggest. Probably try changing the IDE cable it's on and make sure the flags are correct (master/slave)... maybe try a motherboard update.... dunno what else to suggest.

Kind regards,
Scott

Yes but I do know, lots of suggestions.

1. Remove all partitions (there may be more than one)
2. Use Gparted live BootCD, to actually confirm you have 200Gig
3. Check bios to see if bios sees 200gig
4. Confirm you don't in fact have two physical HardDrives installed
5. Use another tool like Delpart to remove all partitions
6. Check the drive is jumpered for CS (Cable Select) and not limited

I can go on, but the above should really be all that is needed

If i may suggest something. istcz: if you're not sure about things you may find this easier for a first step

Start->Run, enter diskmgmt.msc

When it opens, you might want to maximize the window to make sure you're seeing everything.

Then, toward the bottom, look for Disk 0,

why don't you tell us what it says for Disk0, both the information it has directly under Disk0 and the info you see displayed to it's right about Healthy, Unallocated, or any other things you see it describes

Also, do you see a Disk1 mentioned as well?

im for sure that it has only one partition because under my comp it only shows local drive c:. and i made sure to delete every other partition when formatting. i always ended up with 9 gig. Its not my comp actually. its my cousin. he had a virus on it awhile back and people were too lazy to reformatted. Then my cousin wanted to play WoW soo i decided to take it out to reformat it. Before i reformat it i went to desktop to check the specs. its shows that the hdd had 200 gig free space. Then i install a fresh copy of win xp on the same partition. i didnt delete it or anything just reinstall it over the partition. i dunt know if thats wrong but i heard you have to delete the partition before installing a fresh one.

BTW

I also like Tedster's advice

Well under disk 0 it says C: 9.31 gb ntfs healthy then it says cd rom D: 489 mb cdfs healthy.