Hi everyone. I have just reinstalled xp and it now says that my hdd is 10gb it was 20 before. It is a sony vaio pcg-fx702. If anyone could help it would be much appreaciated.

Where are you seeing this? In Disk Management?

If not in Disk Management what does Disk Management show:

Start/Run/ diskmgmt.msc

Did you by any chance partition the drive during the reinstall?

Hi. Thanks for the reply.I think i may of partitioned my drive as it says there is 9.34gb on vaio (c and there is also 9.29gb of free space in a green box on the disk management screen. Is there a way of deleting the partition to make it 20gb again? Thanks again, Andy

yes, but right now im drawing a complete blank, so ill get back to you soon when i remember. I know its real simple, but ill get back to you on the solution.

ok.Thanks.

Andy

In Disk Management right click the blank area and choose Delete (partition).

Have done that but drive c stays the same size and the green box turns into unallocated space. Do you think if i reinstall now it will show that drive c is 20gb?

Andy

Sorry about my initial confusion

If you want just a single partition you will either need to reinstall (creating only one partition)

Or use a third party Partition tool. These are not free

Partition Magic is the most widely known:

http://www.symantec.com/home_homeoff...m80/index.html

There is the free utility if you are up to learning how to use it:

http://www.ranish.com/part/

if you still have the disk i would recommend to reinstall it. It would be more secure and better confidence that you did the right thing. Do you know how to install the OS?

I have the original disks supplied with the laptop but they install the os virtually automatically and i dont get asked to partition,format,etc. Would the disks create a partition now i have deleted the partition. I think the laptop came partitioned when new and have never deleted it before.