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Name: nonseq
Date: November 18, 2008 at 20:01:04 Pacific
OS: vista
CPU/Ram: 2
Product: X
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Been looking around but haven't found anything helpful... I got a 300gb hard drive that I copied a 40gb partition from another drive. I used the windows disk management to extend the drive to the full size. It shows the partition as being 300gb but the capacity that it displays is still the 40gb size. Is there something I missed doing?



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Name: jefro
Date: November 19, 2008 at 14:14:45 Pacific
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Not sure if you have to reboot to get that to take effect or if it is live.

It should have worked unless some odd fat16/32 issue or something like that?? Bios shouldn't even care or cause that.

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Name: kx5m2g
Date: November 19, 2008 at 19:38:06 Pacific
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Was all 300 gb formatted before you copied the 40 gb partition ?


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