(1) I recently preformed a FDISK and Format of my IBM 20.5 GB Hard drive and installed Win. XP Professional. I just realized that Windows sees the drive as being only a 5.25 GB Drive Capacity. I have installed only 3.5 GB software on the drive and soon I will run out of space. How could this be??? Have I done something wrong during the Format of the drive? Is there some way to correct this situation without losing all my programs and other important software ??? (2) Run 'diskpart' to view the whole content of the hard drive. You may be able to resove this issue in a much easier manner than you think. Do the following and post us with the results: 1. Enter the command prompt (Start => Run... => type 'cmd' and press 'Enter'). 2. Within the command prompt type 'diskpart' and press 'Enter'. 3. After the 'diskpart' utility initializes; type 'list disk' and press 'Enter' to view the list of drives available on the computer. 4. Type 'select disk ' and press 'Enter'. 5. Now type 'list partition' and press 'Enter'. 6. Type 'detail disk' and press 'Enter'. If you see more than one partition, it may be an option that the OS does not 'see' the other partitions and we can fix that easily. If you see just a single partition, you may suffer Master File Table problems. Just to be sure of that, see if the OS recognizes the full drive's size. If it is not than, it is defenatly one of two: MFT problems or mainboard failed to recognize size issue. (3) Cyber thanks ........... Here is what I found per your suggestions running DISKPART Diskpart= 19 GB Disk Free 14 GB " Select Disk 0 = List Partition Partition ### Type Partition 1 Primary 5005 MB Offset 32 KB " 2 Extended 14 GB 5005 MB Detail Disk IBM - DPTA Volume 2 LTR FS Size = 5005 MB Disk ID : 854E854E F NTFS Type : IDE BUS : 0 Target : 0 Lun ID : 0 I hope this is good news ... It seems to be recognized by the system ??? Is there a way to make the 14 GB Extended Partition Active, where I can have the use of it without having to buy Partition Magic ?? at $ 70.00 ?? I downloaded the Ranish Program and I became very confused by the interface and I did not see the NTFS file system listed as an option for formating the extended partition. (4) BH GIGI Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp. C:\Documents and Settings\bh>cd\ C:\>diskpart Microsoft DiskPart version 5.1.3565 Copyright (C) 1999-2003 Microsoft Corporation. On computer: GIGI DISKPART> list disk Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt -------- ---------- ------- ------- --- --- Disk 0 Online 75 GB 0 B Disk 1 Online 56 GB 0 B DISKPART> select disk 0 Disk 0 is now the selected disk. DISKPART> list partition Partition ### Type Size Offset ------------- ---------------- ------- ------- Partition 1 Primary 39 GB 32 KB Partition 2 Extended 35 GB 39 GB Partition 3 Logical 35 GB 39 GB DISKPART> detail disk WDC WD800BB-00JHA0 Disk ID: 8D2B8D2B Type : IDE Bus : 0 Target : 0 LUN ID : 0 Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- Volume 2 C GIGIC FAT32 Partition 39 GB Healthy System Volume 3 D GIGID FAT32 Partition 35 GB Healthy Pagefile DISKPART> (5) Yah, those are good news. It seems that you just need to create or activate a volume. Go through steps 1 through 5 but instead of typing 'list partition', type 'list volume' and press 'Enter'. Post the results in here... (6) BH GIGI Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp. C:\Documents and Settings\bh>cd\ C:\>diskpart Microsoft DiskPart version 5.1.3565 Copyright (C) 1999-2003 Microsoft Corporation. On computer: GIGI DISKPART> listdisk Microsoft DiskPart version 5.1.3565 ADD - Add a mirror to a simple volume. ACTIVE - Marks the current basic partition as an active boot partition. ASSIGN - Assign a drive letter or mount point to the selected volume. BREAK - Break a mirror set. CLEAN - Clear the configuration information, or all information, off the disk. CONVERT - Converts between different disk formats. CREATE - Create a volume or partition. DELETE - Delete an object. DETAIL - Provide details about an object. EXIT - Exit DiskPart EXTEND - Extend a volume. HELP - Prints a list of commands. IMPORT - Imports a disk group. LIST - Prints out a list of objects. INACTIVE - Marks the current basic partition as an inactive partition. ONLINE - Online a disk that is currently marked as offline. REM - Does nothing. Used to comment scripts. REMOVE - Remove a drive letter or mount point assignment. REPAIR - Repair a RAID-5 volume. RESCAN - Rescan the computer looking for disks and volumes. RETAIN - Place a retainer partition under a simple volume. SELECT - Move the focus to an object. DISKPART> list disk Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt -------- ---------- ------- ------- --- --- Disk 0 Online 75 GB 0 B Disk 1 Online 56 GB 0 B DISKPART> select disk 0 Disk 0 is now the selected disk. DISKPART> list volume Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- Volume 0 F DVD-ROM 0 B Volume 1 G DVD-ROM 0 B Volume 2 C GIGIC FAT32 Partition 39 GB Healthy System Volume 3 D GIGID FAT32 Partition 35 GB Healthy Pagefile Volume 4 E GIGIE FAT32 Partition 56 GB Healthy DISKPART>