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Old 06 June 2009, 12:36 PM
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Hi I(my sisters really) have a sony A51&M, its got a 100gig hard drive but currently only about 7gig as active the remaining is showing as unallocated, and i cannot for the life of me make the whole drive active. Can anyone please point me in the right direction?
Old 06 June 2009, 12:52 PM
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Sounds like it hasn't been partitioned or not set active.

Check in disk manager, you can create, allocate, expand partitions in there but potentially dangerous to dick around with, make sure you have a handle on what you're doing in there.

How to use Disk Management to configure basic disks in Windows XP
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Hank, Isn't there 3rd party software about which is meant to be safer ?

Paragon Partition Manager – resize partitions, partitioning software

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