Formatted and now need help badly. PLEASE.

[Topa]

Ok I decided to reformat and start fresh for the New Year.
I am running Windows ME and everything went fine except for one small thing.

I have a 13.5 gig IBM HD and I had it partitioned into 'two' drives.
9 gig and 4.5 gig.

I ran fdisk and deleted the partitions before formatting.

Now my C drive only shows up as 9 gig in size and I am missing the other 4,5 gigs.

Any idea, at all, how I can recover the rest of that space...other than reformatting again?

Please please please help me if at all possible.

Thank you.

Happy New Year.

[Blobbo]

Strange problem - only think I can think of is that the other 4.5GB of space is in an extended partition, without any logical drives within that extended partition.

Go back to FDisk (from a bootdisk) and try creating a new logical partition of maximum size. Hopefully you'll find your space again.

Thanks,

Chris

[NumbNutz]

Good idea Blobbo and this should hopefully work.

Failing this, then it might be an idea to get hold of a program like Partition Magic (http://www.powerquest.com/partitionmagic/) which manages disk partitions 'on the fly'. Great piece of software and easy to use.

Good Luck!

[EARTHWALKER]

Damn. Too late again.

/me fwaps NN

[Ch€€€zZE]

You must have deleted your two logical partitions but not the extended patition which contained the 2nd logical one.

You'll need to delete this with a different menu option in fdisk - Delete non DOS partition or something then repartition.

If you've already installed Windows you can do this with Partition magic without having to reinstall.