When I installed winxp on a wester digital 500gb sata drive. I used 137gb for the windows partition and aprox. 363g for the second partition. When I check the drive contents in windows my computer the second partition only shows 70gb. I've messing around with Linux distros and was wondering if something from the grub bootloader caused this change. This is odd though because I install the Linux on a separate physical drive. I've also installed the winxp service pack 3. Could either of the two events caused this change in the hard drive? Also when I boot into my bios, this drive doesn't show up. I've listed below a description of my computer's hardware: id: paul-desktop description: Desktop Computer product: MS-7032 vendor: MSI version: 1.0 serial: 00000000 width: 32 bits capabilities: smbios-2.3 dmi-2.3 smp-1.4 smp configuration: chassis = desktop cpus = 1 uuid = 00020003-0004-0005-0006-000700080009 id: core description: Motherboard product: MS-7032 vendor: MSI physical id: 0 version: 1.0 serial: 00000000 slot: To Be Filled By O.E.M. id: firmware description: BIOS vendor: American Megatrends Inc. physical id: 0 version: 080011 (07/26/2005) size: 64KiB capacity: 448KiB capabilities: isa pci pnp apm upgrade shadowing escd cdboot bootselect socketedrom edd int13floppy1200 int13floppy720 int13floppy2880 int5printscreen int9keyboard int14serial int17printer int10video acpi usb ls120boot zipboot biosbootspecification id: cpu description: CPU product: AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 2800+ vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] physical id: 4 bus info: cpu@0 version: 15.12.2 serial: To Be Filled By O.E.M. slot: CPU 1 size: 1600MHz capacity: 1600MHz width: 64 bits clock: 200MHz capabilities: boot fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt x86-64 3dnowext 3dnow up pni lahf_lm id: cache:0 description: L1 cache physical id: 5 slot: L1-Cache size: 128KiB capabilities: pipeline-burst internal varies data id: cache:1 description: L2 cache physical id: 6 slot: L2-Cache size: 256KiB capacity: 256KiB capabilities: pipeline-burst internal varies unified id: memory description: System Memory physical id: 28 slot: System board or motherboard size: 640MiB id: bank:0 description: DIMM DDR Synchronous 266 MHz (3.8 ns) product: PartNum0 vendor: Manufacturer0 physical id: 0 serial: SerNum0 slot: DIMM0 size: 512MiB width: 64 bits clock: 266MHz (3.8ns) id: bank:1 description: DIMM DDR Synchronous 266 MHz (3.8 ns) product: PartNum1 vendor: Manufacturer1 physical id: 1 serial: SerNum1 slot: DIMM1 size: 128MiB width: 64 bits clock: 266MHz (3.8ns) id: pci:0 description: Host bridge product: K8T800Pro Host Bridge vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc. physical id: 100 bus info: pci@0000:00:00.0 version: 00 width: 32 bits clock: 66MHz configuration: driver = agpgart-amd64 latency = 64 module = amd64_agp id: pci description: PCI bridge product: VT8237 PCI bridge [K8T800/K8T890 South] vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc. physical id: 1 bus info: pci@0000:00:01.0 version: 00 width: 32 bits clock: 66MHz capabilities: pci pm bus_master cap_list id: display:0 description: VGA compatible controller product: RV350 AS [Radeon 9550] vendor: ATI Technologies Inc physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0 version: 00 width: 32 bits clock: 66MHz capabilities: agp agp-3.0 pm bus_master cap_list configuration: latency = 64 mingnt = 8 id: display:1 description: Display controller product: RV350 AS [Radeon 9550] (Secondary) vendor: ATI Technologies Inc physical id: 0.1 bus info: pci@0000:01:00.1 version: 00 width: 32 bits clock: 66MHz capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list configuration: latency = 64 mingnt = 8 id: ide:0 description: IDE interface product: VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc. physical id: f bus info: pci@0000:00:0f.0 logical name: scsi0 logical name: scsi1 version: 80 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: ide pm bus_master cap_list emulated configuration: driver = sata_via latency = 64 module = sata_via id: disk:0 description: ATA Disk product: WDC WD5000AAKS-0 vendor: Western Digital physical id: 0 bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0 logical name: /dev/sda version: 12.0 serial: WD-WCAPW3744003 size: 465GiB (500GB) capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos configuration: ansiversion = 5 signature = 22ba8210 id: volume:0 description: Windows NTFS volume physical id: 1 bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0,1 logical name: /dev/sda1 version: 3.1 serial: 68b963c3-bfd8-a541-9050-658e67a86c41 size: 127GiB capacity: 127GiB capabilities: primary bootable ntfs initialized configuration: clustersize = 4096 created = 2007-08-19 08:53:24 filesystem = ntfs state = clean id: volume:1 description: Extended partition physical id: 2 bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0,2 logical name: /dev/sda2 size: 337GiB capacity: 337GiB capabilities: primary extended partitioned partitioned:extended id: logicalvolume:0 description: HPFS/NTFS partition physical id: 5 logical name: /dev/sda5 logical name: /media/NEW VOLUME capacity: 70GiB configuration: mount.fstype = fuseblk mount.options = rw,nosuid,nodev,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other,blksize=4096 state = mounted id: logicalvolume:1 description: Linux filesystem partition physical id: 6 logical name: /dev/sda6 capacity: 196MiB id: logicalvolume:2 description: Linux LVM Physical Volume partition physical id: 7 logical name: /dev/sda7 serial: pQ3uK1-FI3j-K8W5-8iTB-PeWg-WDz2-o12gSu size: 267GiB capacity: 267GiB capabilities: multi lvm2 id: disk:1 description: ATA Disk product: WDC WD2500KS-00M vendor: Western Digital physical id: 1 bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0 logical name: /dev/sdb version: 02.0 serial: WD-WCANK5214761 size: 232GiB (250GB) capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos configuration: ansiversion = 5 signature = 0a861d0d id: volume description: Windows NTFS volume physical id: 1 bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0,1 logical name: /dev/sdb1 version: 3.1 serial: 8c5137b9-08b1-5e46-af0c-28c731b2a05a size: 232GiB capacity: 232GiB capabilities: primary bootable ntfs initialized configuration: clustersize = 4096 created = 2006-11-15 14:25:02 filesystem = ntfs label = DRV4_VOL1 state = clean id: ide:1 description: IDE interface product: VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc. physical id: f.1 bus info: pci@0000:00:0f.1 logical name: scsi3 version: 06 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: ide pm bus_master cap_list emulated configuration: driver = pata_via latency = 32 module = pata_via id: cdrom description: CD-R/CD-RW writer product: CRD-BP1600P vendor: QPS physical id: 0.0.0 bus info: scsi@3:0.0.0 logical name: /dev/cdrom logical name: /dev/cdrw logical name: /dev/scd0 logical name: /dev/sr0 version: 3.41 capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw configuration: ansiversion = 5 status = nodisc id: disk description: ATA Disk product: WDC WD2500JB-00R vendor: Western Digital physical id: 0.1.0 bus info: scsi@3:0.1.0 logical name: /dev/sdc version: 20.0 serial: WD-WMANK2646468 size: 232GiB (250GB) capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos configuration: ansiversion = 5 signature = 000a0f2f id: volume:0 description: EXT3 volume vendor: Linux physical id: 1 bus info: scsi@3:0.1.0,1 logical name: /dev/sdc1 logical name: / logical name: /dev/.static/dev version: 1.0 serial: fce780c7-9690-43f0-9e21-0c6e13b220c7 size: 231GiB capacity: 231GiB capabilities: primary journaled extended_attributes large_files huge_files recover ext3 ext2 initialized configuration: created = 2008-12-17 13:02:30 filesystem = ext3 modified = 2008-12-18 10:59:06 mount.fstype = ext3 mount.options = ro,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered mounted = 2008-12-18 10:59:06 state = mounted id: volume:1 description: Extended partition physical id: 2 bus info: scsi@3:0.1.0,2 logical name: /dev/sdc2 size: 1835MiB capacity: 1835MiB capabilities: primary extended partitioned partitioned:extended id: logicalvolume description: Linux swap / Solaris partition physical id: 5 logical name: /dev/sdc5 capacity: 1835MiB capabilities: nofs id: usb:0 description: USB Controller product: VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc. physical id: 10 bus info: pci@0000:00:10.0 version: 81 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list configuration: driver = uhci_hcd latency = 64 module = uhci_hcd id: usb:1 description: USB Controller product: VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc. physical id: 10.1 bus info: pci@0000:00:10.1 version: 81 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list configuration: driver = uhci_hcd latency = 64 module = uhci_hcd id: usb:2 description: USB Controller product: VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc. physical id: 10.2 bus info: pci@0000:00:10.2 version: 81 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list configuration: driver = uhci_hcd latency = 64 module = uhci_hcd id: usb:3 description: USB Controller product: VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc. physical id: 10.3 bus info: pci@0000:00:10.3 version: 81 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list configuration: driver = uhci_hcd latency = 64 module = uhci_hcd id: usb:4 description: USB Controller product: USB 2.0 vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc. physical id: 10.4 bus info: pci@0000:00:10.4 version: 86 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list configuration: driver = ehci_hcd latency = 64 module = ehci_hcd id: isa description: ISA bridge product: VT8237 ISA bridge [KT600/K8T800/K8T890 South] vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc. physical id: 11 bus info: pci@0000:00:11.0 version: 00 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: isa pm bus_master cap_list configuration: latency = 0 id: multimedia description: Multimedia audio controller product: VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc. physical id: 11.5 bus info: pci@0000:00:11.5 version: 60 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm cap_list configuration: driver = VIA 82xx Audio latency = 0 module = snd_via82xx id: network description: Ethernet interface product: VT6102 [Rhine-II] vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc. physical id: 12 bus info: pci@0000:00:12.0 logical name: eth0 version: 78 serial: 00:13:d3:ce:00:02 size: 100MB/s capacity: 100MB/s width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation configuration: autonegotiation = on broadcast = yes driver = via-rhine driverversion = 1.4.3 duplex = full ip = 192.168.0.177 latency = 64 link = yes maxlatency = 8 mingnt = 3 module = via_rhine multicast = yes port = MII speed = 100MB/s id: pci:1 description: Host bridge product: K8T800Pro Host Bridge vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc. physical id: 101 bus info: pci@0000:00:00.1 version: 00 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz id: pci:2 description: Host bridge product: K8T800Pro Host Bridge vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc. physical id: 102 bus info: pci@0000:00:00.2 version: 00 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz id: pci:3 description: Host bridge product: K8T800Pro Host Bridge vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc. physical id: 103 bus info: pci@0000:00:00.3 version: 00 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz id: pci:4 description: Host bridge product: K8T800Pro Host Bridge vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc. physical id: 104 bus info: pci@0000:00:00.4 version: 00 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz id: pci:5 description: Host bridge product: K8T800Pro Host Bridge vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc. physical id: 105 bus info: pci@0000:00:00.7 version: 00 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz id: pci:6 description: Host bridge product: K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] physical id: 106 bus info: pci@0000:00:18.0 version: 00 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz id: pci:7 description: Host bridge product: K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] physical id: 107 bus info: pci@0000:00:18.1 version: 00 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz id: pci:8 description: Host bridge product: K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] physical id: 108 bus info: pci@0000:00:18.2 version: 00 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz id: pci:9 description: Host bridge product: K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] physical id: 109 bus info: pci@0000:00:18.3 version: 00 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz configuration: driver = k8temp module = k8temp id: network description: Ethernet interface physical id: 1 logical name: pan0 serial: 12:4f:e0:a7:0b:fa capabilities: ethernet physical configuration: broadcast = yes driver = bridge driverversion = 2.3 firmware = N/A link = yes multicast = yes

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/303013 ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe AMD Athlon X2 4800+ 2GB RAM, X1900GT 2x37GB WD Raptors, RAID 1 1x250GB WD Storage

It looks like it's seeing 337 gig of that drive as an extended partition. But within that extended partition is a logical drive of 70 gig. The rest of the partition isn't being used. 'My computer' is only seeing the 137 gig and 70 gig because it doesn't show unallocated space. You can either create another logical drive using the remaining space or delete the 70 gig drive and create a single drive using all of the 337 gig. (edit)Or you installed the linux on the remaining space--267 gig--and the second physical drive has nothing on it. I can't be sure because of the way your diagnostic software is presenting the information.

(I'm on the XP machine now) Just right click on 'my computer' and choose 'manage' and then 'disk management' under 'storage'. That'll show how the partitions are arranged and if you've got any unused space.

In response to: You can either create another logical drive using the remaining space or delete the 70 gig drive and create a single drive using all of the 337 gig. I checked the contents of the drive in Mandriva 2009 and it shows the same as it does in windows xp. Don't know if that bit of info is of any use, but I was wondering if there is any app in Mandriva that I could use to create another logical drive using the remaining space. If it something that would require the terminal, I don't have much experience with that. As for the drive I installed Mandriva on, I took great caution to make sure I selected the drive that did not have windows.

I don't know anything about Mandriva but it should be easy to create a logical drive using 'disk management', assuming it shows some unallocated space in the extended partition.

Back to the suggestion: "You can either create another logical drive using the remaining space or delete the 70 gig drive and create a single drive using all of the 337 gig" Of the 70g that is showing for the second partition of my boot drive only about 1g is available. I've noticed in windows that this second partition has the option of "deleting logical partition". If I deleted this logical partition would it still just show 70g available or would it show the correct available space which should be 363g (500g -137g If it still just shows 70g could I use something like partition magic to get it to see the correct space(363g)? Bear in mind, I'm trying to correct this without reinstalling windows. Thanks.