I just got a hard drive from a friend, it's a 60gb. He told me I would need to re-partition it because there was stuff on there, so using Hiren's BootCD (i forget which program i used) I created a Fat32 partition that was roughly 55gb, but I never formatted the partition...
Then when I began to copy a bunch of files from my original drive Windows XP started giving me I/O errors. So assuming the problem was caused by my lack of formatting, I used Windows Disk Management to delete the 55gb partition and create a new one that I would format in Windows. I did that but in the three seconds between deleting the partition and creating a new one Windows only sees 33gb available for partitioning!!!
My new 33gb parition works fine w/out the I/O errors, but where did half of my drive go?!?! If anyone has experienced this or has any ideas I would greatly appreciate some feedback...thanks!
Then when I began to copy a bunch of files from my original drive Windows XP started giving me I/O errors. So assuming the problem was caused by my lack of formatting, I used Windows Disk Management to delete the 55gb partition and create a new one that I would format in Windows. I did that but in the three seconds between deleting the partition and creating a new one Windows only sees 33gb available for partitioning!!!
My new 33gb parition works fine w/out the I/O errors, but where did half of my drive go?!?! If anyone has experienced this or has any ideas I would greatly appreciate some feedback...thanks!
