hi. I have a 40g hd, my problem began when I out of curiosity installed red hat fedora on my hd. I did not like it and wanted to go back to win xp. When I tried to remove r.e.f it became a mission, when I was finally able to uninstall using a boot disk and running fdisk, when i reformatted the hd it only registered 32g. I have not been able to recover the other 8g's. Does anyone have any suggestions ? they will be greatly appreciated. em

Well, firstly Windows will probably never utilize the full amount of a hard drive. The reason for this is that more than files go on hdd's when you install an OS. When a HDD is formatted, the formatting itself takes up room. Not to mention that Windows XP keeps an extra 4 gigs of unpartitioned space on harddrives to help compute misc. tasks. Overhead is also an issue. When you right-click a file and it gives you the options of hiding the file, etc. Those options are saved with the file and take up even more room. Either way..... You can check to see if you have any extra room without leaving XP. Right-click My computer > Manage > Storage > Disk Management Under there Windows gives you an easy view of all your drives and their used/unused space.

Its there, formatted as whatever linux uses. Knoppix may be able to format the whole drive NTFS or at least fat32. Then you may have to reinstall xp. The Golden Age of Love Thy Neighbor