Chunky hard drives

[AndyG]

Sure the question must have been asked before, and I know I've got a magazine with the answer somewhere, but I thought I'd take the easy option and see if anybody could help?

I've got a PC running Windows XP, all the bells and whistles etc; hard drive is 160gb, but the system is only showing 146gb.  Can anybody help me reclaim my lost 14gb???

[Ivan]

As it is a installed Harddisk, you need PartitionMagic or something like that to do it, ele you will probably lose data.

Another possibility: BIOS doesn't support 48 bit LBA, go and search for an update, but you need to FDISK and format it again to get the whole 160GB... if not access to it at all

[Paz]

 Are you sure Windows hasn't allocated the rest of your HD for backup/Recovery files and such?
I had one machine that I couldn't figure out where part of my hard drive was, and that's what I eventually figured out, it was there, but XP was keeping it to itself.
Just a thought.  ;)