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missing disk space after reformat
Name: Space Ranger Date: June 9, 2002 at 17:47:50 Pacific
Comment:
Hi all
I had to reformat my wife`s computer. I F disk it and reformat and reinstalled Xp.
It is a 10 GB drive that showed sub under 10 mGB in win 98 but it is only reading as an 8 GB now in XP. It was a new install not an upgrade to Xp. On my computer I had lost disk space before but regained it with Partition Magic as unallocated space.
I`ve got Partition Magic 7 but it isn`t showing an unallocated space.
Where did the other 2 GB go ? any ideas would be helpful
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